Buddy D. Ratner describes research on tissue engineering the heart muscle, which cannot replicate.  An interdisciplinary approach looks at all issues from stimulating growth, modeling it, using gene transfer, and developing perfusion systems. Professors Mary E. Lidstrom and Deirdre R. Meldrum describe the interdisciplinary work of the Microscale Life Sciences Center to provide genomic information on single, isolated cells, and this will make possible the automated detection of rare cells in cell populations and the real-time analysis of metabolism in individual cells. It will provide a predictive aspect to the science of biology.