Personalized Drug Testing, Thanks To Your Heart On A Chip
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 10:21
in Biology & Nature
What did USC biomedical engineering assistant professor Megan McCain think when she first saw a real human heart, with all of those thin valves that have to open and close every second of our lives?“Wow, there’s a lot of plaques of fat. I need to stop eating French fries.”Nine years later, the “cardiac tissue engineer,” is trying to re-create the human heart on a chip. read more