NUI Galway Stem Cell Breakthrough Will Generate Heart Tissue In A Lab Dish

A Petri dish in a laboratory at NUI Galway holds something quite special - hundreds of individual human heart cells all beating in synchrony.

This is not a tissue sample taken from a heart. These are individual cells grown from stem cells, which in turn used to be skin cells. The cells have been “reprogrammed” to grow into heart tissue.

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