Announcement: How a Single Stem Cell Learns to Beat: Inside Cardiac Development

ბოლო განახლება: 14/08/2026 07:29

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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have captured the moment a stem cell transforms into a functional heart muscle cell, revealing how individual cells self-organize contractile machinery and generate electrical signals to produce rhythmic beating. This visualization provides insights into cardiac development and applications for disease modeling and drug safety screening. — Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash (Unsplash License)

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🔬 Watch a single stem cell learn to beat. Researchers at Vanderbilt University have captured the moment a cell self-assembles into a functional cardiomyocyte—revealing how the heart builds itself one cell at a time. This breakthrough enables better understanding of heart disease and faster screening of cardiac toxicity in new drugs.

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Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Medical Journal and Chair of the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). He is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at David Tvildiani Medical University, and Secretary/Treasurer of the UEMS Section of Public Health. ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.

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