#  Heart Disease-On-A-Chip 

 





May 12, 2014

 

 

Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and “organ-on-a-chip” technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research appears to be a big step forward for personalized medicine, because it is working proof that a chunk of tissue containing a patient’s specific genetic disorder can be replicated in the laboratory. Read more [here](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/05/heart-disease-on-a-chip/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.12.daily%201)[  ](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/05/heart-disease-on-a-chip/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=05.12.daily%201)



 

 

 



 

 

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