The tissues generated on the Biowire II platform are made possible thanks to the unique properties of iCell ® Cardiomyocytes 2, a second generation type of lab-grown heart muscle cell derived ...

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Janelia Senior Group Leader The first clue about the possible connection between brain and muscle cells came when ... voltage-gated ion channel proteins, which ...

Only cardiac muscle tissue, comprising cells called myocytes, is present in the heart. In this article, we discuss the structure and function of cardiac muscle tissue. We also cover medical ...

These electrodes, each up to 200 times smaller than a single heart muscle cell, are made of silica coated with platinum. Heart muscle cells, derived from stem cells, were grown and then placed on ...

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego and Stanford University has developed a noninvasive method to monitor the electrical activity inside heart muscle cells from the ...