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Berkeley Builds a Heart Simulator

Posted by samzenpus on from the beat-goes-on dept.

Zothecula writes The increasing number of biological structures being grown on chips in various laboratories around the world is rapidly replicating the entire gamut of major human organs. Now one of the most important of all – a viable functioning heart – has been added to that list by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley who have taken adult stem cells and grown a lattice of pulsing human heart tissue on a silicon device.

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  1. Yes, but... by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but is it 3D printed?

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    My first program:

    Hell Segmentation fault