Engineered Heart Tissue Patches Up the Failing Heart (4 of 4) (VIDEO)

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The movie shows the experimental process of making and evaluating engineered heart tissue (EHT) from a human skin biopsy via human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC). It also shows an EHT transduced with the (green) calcium sensor GCaMP5..

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Provided by Ingra Mannhardt, Barbel Ulmer, Kaja Breckwoldt, Aya Shibamiya, Arne Hansen and Thomas Eschenhagen, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany

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