biofidelity

noun

biofidelity

noun

Etymology From bio- + fidelity.

1

The degree of faithfulness of a model to the real biological system it is based on.

  • Two-dimensional human cell culture models of HCM are species-specific but lack biofidelity and do not measure contractility.2016 January 20, “Human Engineered Cardiac Tissues Created Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveal Functional Characteristics of BRAF-Mediated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
Related terms
biofidelic

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