‘Heart-on-a-chip’ project to help researchers study BMD, DMD
WHY IT MATTERS
Heart problems are a major cause of death in DMD and BMD patients, so understanding how these diseases affect the heart could lead to therapies that extend and improve lives for people with these conditions.
Researchers in Spain are getting €247,000 in funding to build a 'heart-on-a-chip' — a tiny lab model that grows heart cells in a 3D structure. This tool will help scientists understand how Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy damage the heart. The project could lead to better treatments for these muscle-weakening diseases.
Duchenne Parent Project Spain is investing €247,000 (just over $290,000 USD) in a project that aims to create a new laboratory model to study how the heart is affected in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). The “heart-on-a-chip” platform will allow researchers to grow heart cells in a three-dimensional architecture […] The post ‘Heart-on-a-chip’ project to help researchers study BMD, DMD appeared first on Muscular Dystrophy News .