How to break a thousand hearts | Nikolai Zhelev | TEDxAbertayUniversity

In his talk Professor Zhelev explains what we can learn from making and breaking a thousand human hearts. Abertay University researchers have developed tiny human hearts, just 1 mm in diameter, which beat on their own accord. They are made from stem cells, which are reprogrammed to become cardiomyocytes (cells that make up the heart). Although healthy to begin with, Professor Zhelev and colleagues are using chemicals to simulate the physiological conditions that will induce diseases such as heart hypertroph