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Engineering mini human hearts to study pregnancy complications and birth defects

  • Written by Brett Volmert, Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University
imageOrganoids can replicate each component of the human heart, from its chambers to its veins.Yonatan R. Lewis-Israeli et al. 2021/Nature Communications, CC BY-SA

How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive.

Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully...

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