A 3D-printed ventricle containing beating coronary heart cells
Tilman Esser, College of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Miniature-sized coronary heart chambers referred to as ventricles have been 3D printed with dwell human coronary heart muscle cells and proven to beat on their very own for at the least three months.
Synthetic coronary heart tissue will be made by rising coronary heart cells in moulds or on scaffolds, however this sometimes solely permits the development of straightforward shapes like sheets or rings.
3D printing could enable the creation of extra complicated buildings. In 2019, for instance, Nadav Noor at Tel Aviv College in Israel and his colleagues confirmed they might …
