Self-healing engineered muscle grown in the laboratory

Self-healing engineered muscle grown in the laboratory
Durham NC (SPX) Apr 03, 2014 - Biomedical engineers have grown living skeletal muscle that looks a lot like the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates into mice quickly, and for the first time, demonstrates the ability to heal itself both inside the laboratory and inside an animal. The study conducted at Duke University tested the bioengineered muscle by literally watching it through a window on the ... more

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