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Biohybrid fish made from human cardiac cells swims like the heart beats

• cosheaf 5y ago
  This is very cool. It should be possible to scale this up and build artificial hearts.
  • brnt 5y ago
    I dunno, having a tank full of "fish" made of my own cells? Has a nice cyberpunk feel to it.
  • klntsky 5y ago
    The more fascinating use is to build artificial fish.
    • cosheaf 5y ago
      Yes, that's clearly much more fascinating than saving lives with artificial hearts.
• chomp 5y ago
  I was intrigued, and then noticed that “fish” should be in quotes; they’re not fish, they’re cardiac cells on a synthetic fish-shaped scaffolding. Still cool nonetheless.
• savant_penguin 5y ago
  Should say that the future of medicine is fishy, but it's not a real fish
• dr_dshiv 5y ago
  Has anyone found the paper? I’m trying to understand how they entrained the cardiac cells. I’m writing a paper about the relationship between resonance and entrainment, arguing that entrainment is a special type of resonance based on self-sustained oscillators.
  • rzzzt 5y ago
    There is a Science link somewhere in the middle of the article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh0474 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh0474
    • dr_dshiv 5y ago
      It’s not on a sci-hub, though
• vermilingua 5y ago
  This makes All Tomorrows feel a lot less farfetched.
• pvaldes 5y ago
  Device shaped as a fish that includes a chunk of human cardiac cells, moves as expected in human muscle. The "biohybrid" term is just here to confuse.