Self-Healing Engineered Muscles
June 24, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

Engineered Muscle
To quote directly from this piece: “Living skeletal muscle that contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates quickly into mice, and for the first time, demonstrates the ability to heal itself both inside the laboratory and inside an animal has been grown in the lab by biomedical engineers. “The muscle we have made represents an important advance for the field,” an author said. “It’s the first time engineered muscle has been created that contracts as strongly as native neonatal skeletal muscle.” This remarkable achievement was done at Duke University. MORE
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