Growing Life-Like Heart Valves, Thanks to Help from Computational Modeling (3 of 3) (VIDEO)

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An ultrasound examination of the tissue-engineered heart valve opening and closing after being implanted in a sheep. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 9 May, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.Y. Emmert at University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland and colleagues was titled, "Computational modeling guides tissue-engineered heart valve design for long-term in vivo performance in a translational sheep model"

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M.Y. Emmert <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)

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