I-Wire video (VIDEO)

Vanderbilt University

Caption

This is a video taken through a microscope shows I-Wire heart fiber. left, beating at different frequencies. The black circle, right, is the flexible cantilever that measures the force of the fiber's contractions.

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Veniamin Sidorov VIIBRE Vanderbilt

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