UC Berkeley Engineering @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social · Nov 3 1 / 3
Berkeley engineers just made a discovery that could help advance heart failure therapeutics! Using a heart-on-a-chip model, a team led by Professor Kevin Healy found a lipid nanoparticle that could penetrate the heart muscle to deliver therapeutic gene therapies. Read our story: bit.ly/4qEeK87
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“By using organ-on-a-chip models to predict heart-targeted delivery and safety,” Healy said, “we can potentially accelerate programs for heart failure therapeutics, cardioprotective factors and gene correction, while reducing time and cost to translation.” Read our story: bit.ly/4qEeK87