Press Release (ePRNews.com) - NEW YORK - Jan 24, 2019 - TARA Biosystems, Inc., a company offering physiologically relevant human “heart-on-a-chip” tissue models for cardiac risk assessment and drug discovery applications, today announced the first peer-reviewed publication of its Biowire™ II platform by a team of researchers led by Milica Radisic, Ph.D., Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Functional Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering and a scientific co-founder of TARA Biosystems.
The groundbreaking research, published in the leading peer-reviewed international journal CELL, reports on the creation of multiple human heart tissue types in vitro using the Biowire™ II platform as well as the generation of tissue models of human disease from cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent cells of affected patients. These engineered human tissues represent a major technological advancement toward the discovery and development of safer, more effective therapies.
The paper has been published in the online version of CELL, widely regarded as one of the most rigorously peer-reviewed scientific journals, and will appear in the February 7, 2019 print issue of the journal. The paper can be accessed at https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31567-8.
TARA Biosystems is a human heart-on-a-chip company headquartered in New York which has developed a proprietary platform of cardiac tissue models. Through these physiologically human-relevant predictive models, the company offers a variety of services and solutions that can decisively evaluate the safety and efficacy of novel biopharmaceutical drugs and strengthen the drug discovery, and development pipeline. For more information, please visit www.tarabiosystems.com.
Source : TARA Biosystems, Inc.