A team of researchers has developed a material that beats like a heart in the body but from which layers can be stacked or peeled away, according to a study published today in Science Advances.
When researchers make synthetic heart tissue, they usually combine biodegradable man-made chemicals with living cells grown in a lab. These tissues do work, but they’re limited. Some production methods make the final shape of the cells unpredictable, or the tiny scaffolds of cells can’t stack on top of each other; bioprinted tissues are pretty good, but doctors can’t separate out the different layers.
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