
Simulated human heart used to test drugs' effects
Heart-related side effects of drugs are often only exposed once the drug is used on patients in clinical trials, at which point it is too late. But a scientist in the UK has spent 10 years developing a breakthrough new way to safely test a drug's cardiovascular effects without having to use human or animal trials - by using samples of beating heart tissue.
Dr. Helen Maddock, from the Centre...