Reverse engineering the beat: Assembloid modeling of sympathetic control of the heart.

Nam, Junsung; Simamora, Roy; Birey, Fikri · Cell Stem Cell · 2026

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Liu et al.<sup>1</sup> generate human sympathetic ganglion organoids and assemble them with heart-forming organoids to build functionally connected sympathetic-cardiac organoids in vitro. Their platform captures autonomic development, neuromodulation of heart function, and metabolic injury, opening new opportunities to study human autonomic disorders and cardiometabolic disease.<sup>2</sup>.

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