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. — "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, Accréditation Sans Frontières (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, 2016–2021). ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515.