Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart's biomechanical properties

Scientists have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart’s amazing biomechanical properties in order to study cardiac disease, determine the effects that different drugs have on the heart and screen for new drugs to treat heart ailments.

(via WSJ)

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