Lab Grows First Contracting Human Muscle Tissue
Lab grows first contracting human muscle tissue – For the first time, researchers have grown human skeletal muscle in the lab that contracts and responds to electrical pulses and medicine just like living tissue.
The tissue, created by Duke University biomedical engineering Nenad Bursac and postdoctoral researcher Lauran Madden, represents a entirely new, more human-like medium in which to study disease and use for drug testing.
“One of our goals is to use this method to provide personalized medicine to patients,” Bursac said in a press release. “We can take a biopsy from each patient, grow many new muscles to use as test samples and experiment to see which drugs would work best for each person.”
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