Recent News
March 23, 2023
New study finds the body’s defensive reaction to a heart attack could help
Press Release for a manuscript Jasmine Li contributed to, published in Cell Stem Cell.
March 23, 2023
Gene therapy for heart attacks in mice just got more precise
Press release for work Sophia DeLuca contributed to, now published in Cell Stem Cell.
February 4, 2022
Tweaked Genes Borrowed From Bacteria Excite Heart Cells in Live Mice
Press release for Hung Nguyen and Tianyu Wu's paper published in Nature Communications.
January 24, 2021
Exercising Muscle Combats Chronic Inflammation On Its Own
Press release for Zhaowei Chen's recent paper in Science Advances.
April 25, 2019
Lab-grown patch of heart muscle and other cells could fix ailing hearts
Science featured an article about the lab's work on cardiac tissue patches.
October 1, 2018
Immune Cells Help Older Muscles Heal Like New
Press release for Mark Juhas's... read more
June 29, 2018
Inner Workings: The race to patch the human heart
Dr. Nenad Bursac's cardiac regeneration reserach featured in PNAS Inner Workings series.
April 10, 2018
“Engineering human pluripotent stem cells into a functional skeletal muscle tissue” featured in recent Nature Communications' Editors’ Highlights
Lingjun Rao's publication was featured in Nature Communications' Editors's Highlights webpages of recent reserach on Therapeutics and... read more
January 9, 2018
Engineers Grow Functioning Human Muscle from Skin Cells
Press release for Lingjun Rao's publication in Nature Communications.
December 14, 2017
Stimulating Heart Muscle to Regrow After Injury
A movie showing heart regeneration research at Duke featuring Dr. Bursac.
November 30, 2017
Beating Heart Patch is Large Enough to Repair the Human Heart
Press release for Ilia Shadrin's publication in Nature Communications.
September 25, 2017
TENSION MAKES THE HEART GROW STRONGER
Press release for Chris' and Dr. Bursac's contribution to publication in Developmental Cell
June 6, 2017
Young at heart: Restoring cardiac function with a matrix molecule
Press release for Ilia's and Dr. Bursac's contribution to publication in Nature
October 18, 2016
Bacterial Sodium Channels Enhance Electrical Activity of Engineered Excitable Cells
Press release on Hung Nguyen's publication in Nature Communications.
March 20, 2015
Dr. Bursac on NBC video
NBC News posted a video on our lab's work with human skeletal muscle engineering. Enjoy!
May 27, 2014
Bursac Lab featured on TV
UNC-TV, a local PBS affiliate, broadcasted a segment on Mark's research.