{"id":3916,"date":"2022-03-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2022-03-08T06:33:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T06:33:51","slug":"scientists-used-heart-cells-to-make-a-biohybrid-fish-and-it-swims-using-heartbeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/scientists-used-heart-cells-to-make-a-biohybrid-fish-and-it-swims-using-heartbeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Used Heart Cells to Make a Biohybrid \u201cFish\u201d\u2014And It Swims Using \u201cHeartbeats\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First off, no, scientists did not slap fins onto a human heart and made it backstroke across a pond; what happened here was instead a bit of a quirky offshoot of an otherwise medically relevant pursuit. Researchers from Harvard University<\/a> managed to create heart muscle cells out of human stem cells and gave them fins and a tail to give the radical biohybrid \u201cfish\u201d some sense of movement as its muscle cells beat just like a heart does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This remarkable demonstration of biomedical engineering<\/a> was the product of researchers from Harvard\u2019s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/a> (SEAS) in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University<\/a>, whose published paper in the journal Science<\/em><\/a> was headed by senior author SEAS Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics Kit Parker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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