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Scientists make beating heart in laboratory

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (January, 13 2008) — University of Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of [...]

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