Heart disease: Research off the beating patch

"Research group leader Steven Goldman, MD, (right) and pre-doctoral Fellow Jordan Lancaster look at the microscopic image of a synthetic fiber mesh with beating heart muscle cells. It is an amazing sight: What looks like a tiny beating heart is actually a piece of synthetic, gauze-like mesh, barely the size of a fingernail, floating in a Petri dish. And yet it keeps squeezing away, nice and rhythmically" - Physorg.com