Photo of Christos Michas, a white man with short brown hair, wears purple medical gloves and holds a miniaturized cardiac ventricular pump (or, a mini heart pump) with a pair of tweezers. The pump looks like a small piece of plastic. Michas is seen blurred in the background and the pump and his hands are in focus.
May 9, 2022
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New Miniature Heart

A miniature replica of a heart chamber made from engineered parts and tissue from stem cells—and all contained on a chip not much bigger than a postage stamp—could help researchers study disease and test new treatments. Read the full story. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi.