[Science Daily] First contracting human muscle grown in laboratory

Researchers have grown human skeletal muscle in the laboratory that, for the first time, contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as electrical pulses, biochemical signals and pharmaceuticals. The development should soon allow researchers to test new drugs and study diseases in functioning human muscle outside of the human body.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]