Cardiac Microchambers (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Cardiac Microchambers

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When spatially confined, differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells self-organize into cardiac microchambers. Myofibroblasts are green, cardiomyocytes are red and the nuclei are blue. Cardiac microchambers can be used to study the toxicity of drugs that affect early human heart development.

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Zhen Ma, UC Berkeley

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