Major breakthrough in heart research through a nanoscopic chip

Heart disease research got a major boost with biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins University and their colleagues in Korea developing a nanoscopic laboratory chip. This chip has nanoscopic grooves and ridges that will allow cardiac tissue to grow on it. This cardiac tissue will closely resemble the natural heart muscle. The heart tissue thus developed has done so completely going by the patterns on the nanoscopic grooves rather than any chemical stimulus. This is very similar to how the heart tissue grows in the body. So, finally scientists have managed to crack the complex way in which heart tissue develops within the body. This obviously will lead to more accurate simulations of heart diseases, thus helping scientists develop better medicines to treat heart diseases. Let's hope that this path-breaking discovery leads us to a future where heart disease can be understood completely, treated and in due course of time, totally avoided.

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