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Nanoelectronic sensor simultaneously measures electrical and mechanical activity in heart cells

NIBIB in the News
August 24, 2022

Using a suspended nanowire, a research team has created a tiny sensor that can simultaneously measure electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue, work promising for cardiac disease studies, drug testing and regenerative medicine. Source: Science Daily/University of Massachusetts Amherst