{"id":111722,"date":"2020-08-21T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-grow-the-first-functioning-mini-human-heart-model"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:22:22","slug":"scientists-grow-the-first-functioning-mini-human-heart-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-grow-the-first-functioning-mini-human-heart-model","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow the first functioning mini human heart model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQFwM-zxjjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michigan State University researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory, complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart disease<\/a> is the No. 1 cause of death. \u201cThese minihearts constitute incredibly powerful models in which to study all kinds of cardiac disorders with a degree of precision unseen before,\u201d said Aitor Aguirre, the study\u2019s senior author and assistant professor of biomedical engineering at MSU\u2019s Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>This study, \u201cGeneration of Heart Organoids Modeling Early Human Cardiac Development Under Defined Conditions,\u201d appears on the bioRxiv preprint server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan State University researchers have created for the first time a miniature human heart model in the laboratory, complete with all primary heart cell types and a functioning structure of chambers and vascular tissue. In the United States, heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death. \u201cThese minihearts constitute incredibly powerful models in which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}