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James Koconis graduates with Walter J. Seely Scholastic and da Vinci Awards

James earned the Walter J. Seely Scholastic Award for Pratt undergraduates who achieved the highest scholastic average across subjects! He also received the da Vinci for academic excellence from the BME department! Congratulations James!

Lab-Grown Muscles Reveal Mysteries of Rare Muscle Diseases

Press Release For Alastair Khodabukus's recent paper published in Advanced Science.

Harnessing Skin Cancer Genes to Heal Hearts

Press release for Nicholas Strash's recent paper published in Science Advances.

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.

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.

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.

Exercising Muscle Combats Chronic Inflammation On Its Own

Press release for Zhaowei Chen's recent paper in Science Advances.

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. 

Immune Cells Help Older Muscles Heal Like New

Press release for Mark Juhas's publication in Nature Biomedical engineering.

Inner Workings: The race to patch the human heart

Dr. Nenad Bursac's cardiac regeneration reserach featured in PNAS Inner Workings series.  

“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 Stem Cells and Diseases by Francesco Conti and Robert Stephenson.  

Engineers Grow Functioning Human Muscle from Skin Cells

Press release for Lingjun Rao's publication in Nature Communications.

Stimulating Heart Muscle to Regrow After Injury

A movie  showing heart regeneration research at Duke featuring Dr. Bursac.

Beating Heart Patch is Large Enough to Repair the Human Heart

Press release for Ilia Shadrin's publication in Nature Communications.

TENSION MAKES THE HEART GROW STRONGER

Press release for Chris' and Dr. Bursac's contribution to publication in Developmental Cell