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. 2024 Oct 8;121(41):e2417412121.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2417412121. Epub 2024 Sep 30.

Heart-on-a-Chip at the final frontier

Megan L McCain  1   2
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Heart-on-a-Chip at the final frontier

Megan L McCain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Competing interests statement:M.L.M. is an inventor on US Patent No. US9857356B2 by Harvard University and licensed to Emulate, Inc.

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Timeline of major milestones in human space exploration (left) and Organ-on-a-Chip experiments onboard the ISS (right).
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