Broken UV light leads to key heart muscle cell discovery
Monday, January 18, 2016 - 15:12
in Biology & Nature
For a team of investigators trying to generate heart muscle cells from stem cells, a piece of broken equipment turned out to be a good thing. The faulty equipment pushed the researchers to try a different approach. Their new method uses a "Matrigel mattress" to rapidly generate cardiac cells suitable for heart disease studies and drug discovery.