Functioning Human Skeletal Muscle Grown from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Duke University researchers have grown the first functional human skeletal muscle tissue entirely from induced human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). The achievement could feasibly allow scientists to generate skeletal muscle tissue for disease modelling and drug studies, and potentially for developing hPSC-based therapies for muscle-wasting diseases."It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning human muscle from pluripotent ste