Researchers at Vanderbilt University have documented the transformation of a single stem cell into a beating heart muscle cell, revealing how cardiac tissue self-organizes at the cellular level. The footage offers insights into cardiac development, disease mechanisms, and drug testing platforms. β "Telocyte-putative stem cell junctions observed in the human heart" by Priya, Sivan & Syed, Sakinah & Mok, Pooi & Higuchi, Akon & Murugan, Kadarkarai & Alarfaj, Abdullah & Murugan, Alwarkurichi & Hamat, Rukman & Umezawa, Akihiro & Kumar, Suresh. is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. (CC BY 4.0)
MD, MPH, PhD. Editor-in-Chief, Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ). Professor and Head, School of Public Health, David Tvildiani Medical University (DTMU), Tbilisi, Georgia. Chair, Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). President, AccrΓ©ditation Sans FrontiΓ¨res (ASF), Paris. Secretary/Treasurer, UEMS Section of Public Health. WHO Consultant, Health and Migration, Geneva. Former Member, UN Secretary-General's Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent (IAP-EWEC, 2016β2021). ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.