By Drug Target Review –
Researchers have shown that applying magnetic forces to lab-grown human heart organoids enhances their maturation and vascular development, offering a more realistic model of early heart formation and the possibility of future cardiac therapies.
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, yet efforts to better understand and treat cardiac disorders are constrained by the limitations of existing experimental models. Animal models frequently fail to reflect human-specific cardiac biology, while conventional two-dimensional cell cultures lack the structural and functional complexity of real human heart tissue. These challenges have caused a growing interest in regenerative medicine approaches that can more accurately reproduce human heart development and disease.
