Distilling complexity to advance cardiac tissue engineering.

Journal Article (Review;Journal Article)

The promise of cardiac tissue engineering is in the ability to recapitulate in vitro the functional aspects of a healthy heart and disease pathology as well as to design replacement muscle for clinical therapy. Parts of this promise have been realized; others have not. In a meeting of scientists in this field, five central challenges or "big questions" were articulated that, if addressed, could substantially advance the current state of the art in modeling heart disease and realizing heart repair.

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Duke Authors

Bursac, Nenad

Cited Authors

Ogle, BM; Bursac, N; Domian, I; Huang, NF; Menasché, P; Murry, CE; Pruitt, B; Radisic, M; Wu, JC; Wu, SM; Zhang, J; Zimmermann, W-H; Vunjak-Novakovic, G

Published Date

June 2016

Published In

Science Translational Medicine

Volume / Issue

8 / 342

Start / End Page

342ps13 -

PubMed ID

27280684

Pubmed Central ID

PMC4959426

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

1946-6242

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1946-6234

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1126/scitranslmed.aad2304

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