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cosheaf
This is very cool. It should be possible to scale this up and build artificial hearts.
brnt
I dunno, having a tank full of "fish" made of my own cells? Has a nice cyberpunk feel to it.
klntsky
The more fascinating use is to build artificial fish.
cosheaf
Yes, that's clearly much more fascinating than saving lives with artificial hearts.
chomp
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
Should say that the future of medicine is fishy, but it's not a real fish
dr_dshiv
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.

vermilingua
This makes All Tomorrows feel a lot less farfetched.
pvaldes
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.