Beating Human Hearts Grown In Laboratory Using Stem Cells

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A partly regrown human heart within a bioreactor, which replicates the biological conditions around a normal human heart. Bernhard Jank, MD, Ott Lab, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Right now, there are 4,186 people waiting for a heart transplant in the U.S., but with a huge donor shortage not all of these patients are likely to survive.