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Fitness in science: growing muscles in the lab 💪 Jasper Smet (KU Leuven - KU Leuven Campus Kulak Kortrijk) is working (out) in the lab: he wants to grow 3D human muscles to help those with muscle diseases and injuries. By piecing together tiny muscle sections in the lab, he aims to create realistic human muscle models 🧫 These could be used to unravel how muscles work, test the effect of drugs, and one day perform transplants in people with severe muscle injuries. Muscle up! 💪 Research supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)