The heart wants … tension

Friday, October 2, 2015 - 11:30 in Biology & Nature

The heart is never quite at rest, and it turns out that even in a lab heart cells need a little of that tension. Without something to pull against, heart cells grown from stem cells in a lab dish fail to develop normally. In addition to discovering the important role that tension plays in growing […]

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