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RE: Friends and fellow Steemates! Introduction into my world as a Scientist.
G'day Mike. What an awesome field of study! I'm a Medical student and attended a lecture this year about some of the first trials using in-vitro bread cardiomyocytes in heart failure patients. I love the concept of creating artificial organs (specificially hearts) for organ transplants - and I'm watching this sphere very closely at the moment. Will be interesting to see how they stack up against mechanical options. Your thoughts?
It seems like we are limited in artificial heart muscle replacement in many ways, but I see that developing strong, rigorously contracting cardiac muscle is limited by its lack of functional maturity in vitro. Development is a dynamic process that progresses onward from birth. We need to develop rigorous contracting healthy cardiac tissue in that can form a function unit (organ).