Scientists Build Ventricle-on-a-Chip to Study Heart Disease

Tissue engineering and nanofabrication created a miniature working model of a heart chamber

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A man sits in the dark looking at a screen that shows a close-up of a orange-red and translucent object

Christos Michas takes a real-time side view image of the miniPUMP in the lab. The scaffold that gives structure to the heart cells—without exerting any active force on them—can be seen through the tissue.

Jackie Ricciardi/Boston University