The Disease Biophysics Group (DBG) at Harvard University is an interdisciplinary team of biologists, physicists, engineers and material scientists actively researching the structure/function relationship in cardiac, neural, and vascular smooth muscle tissue engineering. We seek to quantify cellular mechanotransduction at the single-cell and tissue level to understand the effect on electrophysiology and disease states.
From stem cells to functioning strip of heart muscle (October 15, 2009)
Harvard team grows heart muscle from stem cells (Boston Globe, October 15, 2009)
Three Harvard teams to receive $9 million each in federal funding for stem cell research (October 8, 2009)
GlaxoSmithKline and Harvard Stem Cell Institute announce major collaboration agreement (July 24, 2008)
Biohybrid of elastic film and muscle cells packs a punch (September 10, 2007)
Engineering Idol (April 27, 2006)
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