Contact: Leila Gray
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Caption: This heart repair patch was engineered from a mix of stem cells in the University of Washington laboratory of Dr. Charles Murry. The tissue patch is shown beating spontaneously and synchronously in a lab dish.
Credit: Charles Murry lab, University of Washington
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