theaustralian.com.au
Enzo Porrello’s eyes light up and he leans in, radiating enthusiasm as he describes the first time he saw lab-created heart tissue pumping away, as if powered by its own life force. “It still blows my mind every time we take people through the lab and show them these beating heart cells. It’s always a ‘wow’ moment,” he smiles, dropping the science speak to meet me in the land of the layperson. From the depths of medical research, when he’s down in the weeds of the everyday, Professor Porrello never tires of this beating sheet of heart muscle because he knows the technology he helped pioneer will be a game changer for potentially millions of people.
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