Engineered Heart Muscle (VIDEO)

UT Southwestern Medical Center

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A study from UT Southwestern demonstrates how a new CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique improves the function of heart muscle cells taken from DMD patients. From left to right, the footage shows the beating function of a healthy heart muscle tissue, DMD heart muscle tissue, and tissue edited by CRISPR-Cas9.

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UT Southwestern Medical Center

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