Heart-on-a-Chip at the final frontier

Megan L McCain^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033.
² Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033.

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Megan L McCain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024.

. 2024 Oct 8;121(41):e2417412121.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2417412121. Epub 2024 Sep 30.

Megan L McCain^{1

2}

¹ Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033.
² Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests statement:M.L.M. is an inventor on US Patent No. US9857356B2 by Harvard University and licensed to Emulate, Inc.

Spaceflight-induced contractile and mitochondrial dysfunction in an automated heart-on-a-chip platform.
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