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. โ "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)
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.
