{"id":234661,"date":"2026-04-06T03:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/rebuilding-the-bridge-functional-avn-cells-for-cardiac-repair"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:14:17","slug":"rebuilding-the-bridge-functional-avn-cells-for-cardiac-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/rebuilding-the-bridge-functional-avn-cells-for-cardiac-repair","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the bridge: Functional AVN cells for cardiac repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rebuilding-the-bridge-functional-avn-cells-for-cardiac-repair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into atrioventricular node-like cells is a critical strategy for restoring atrioventricular node dysfunction in patients. In this issue, Lohbihler et al. define a BMP2-driven protocol to engineer functional conduction bridges that recapitulate the heart\u2019s native \u201cgatekeeper\u201d properties in vivo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into atrioventricular node-like cells is a critical strategy for restoring atrioventricular node dysfunction in patients. In this issue, Lohbihler et al. define a BMP2-driven protocol to engineer functional conduction bridges that recapitulate the heart\u2019s native \u201cgatekeeper\u201d properties in vivo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234661","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}