Beating Heart Grown in Lab Brings New Hope for Custom-built Organs

Heart Disease is the number one reason for death in the United States. Researches made some very big developments in the last few months in successfully growing a rat heart and making it beat. Newborn rats' hearts were taken out and stripped of the cells. The scientists then injected them back in to the remaining sac. The muscle and endothelial cells aligned themselves back up and the scientists passed an electrical signal through the heart. By two days the hearts started beating. This is a huge development in science today because of the need for more organs for transplant. The donor needers exceed the number of available organs for transplant. I picked this article because it relates to our design project and is a huge advancement for the future.

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