Beating Left Ventricle (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Beating Left Ventricle

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This tissue-engineering ventricle, made from neonatal rat ventricular myocyte tissue, is spontaneously contracting, sutured and attached to a catheter.

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Luke MacQueen/Disease Biophysics Group/Harvard SEAS

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