WORLD-FIRST FOR DUKE’S LAB GROWN MUSCLE TISSUE

Duke University Create First Ever Lab-Grown Contracting Muscle Tissue

Researchers at Duke University have created the first lab-grown muscle tissue that contracts in reaction to external stimuli. It is hoped that the lab-grown tissue could be used to study the effects that certain diseases and drugs have on muscle tissue without the need to experiment on humans. Dr. Nenad Bursac, a professor of biomedical engineering at Duke and one of the researchers wrote, “The beauty of this work is that it can serve as a test bed for clinical trials in a dish. 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.”