Growing Muscles in a Lab (IMAGE)

Duke University

Growing Muscles in a Lab

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An array of Petri dishes each housing a platform for growing muscle fibers from stem cells. The Bursac Lab was the first to grow contracting, functional human skeletal muscle in a Petri dish and has been improving its processes ever since to enable studies of muscle strength, metabolism and repair.

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Alastair Khodabukus, Duke University

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