Biohybrid fish made from human cardiac cells swims like the heart beats

by yeellow on 2/11/2022, 10:40:13 AM with 11 comments

  • by chomp on 2/12/2022, 12:08:05 AM

    I was intrigued, and then noticed that “fish” should be in quotes; they’re not fish, they’re cardiac cells on a synthetic fish-shaped scaffolding.

    Still cool nonetheless.

  • by pvaldes on 2/12/2022, 11:31:44 AM

    Device shaped as a fish that includes a chunk of human cardiac cells, moves as expected in human muscle. The "biohybrid" term is just here to confuse.

  • by dr_dshiv on 2/12/2022, 7:57:32 AM

    Has anyone found the paper? I’m trying to understand how they entrained the cardiac cells.

    I’m writing a paper about the relationship between resonance and entrainment, arguing that entrainment is a special type of resonance based on self-sustained oscillators.

  • by cosheaf on 2/11/2022, 11:01:03 AM

    This is very cool. It should be possible to scale this up and build artificial hearts.

  • by vermilingua on 2/12/2022, 8:18:02 AM

    This makes All Tomorrows feel a lot less farfetched.

  • by savant_penguin on 2/12/2022, 1:09:08 AM

    Should say that the future of medicine is fishy, but it's not a real fish