biofidelity

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ fidelity

Noun

biofidelity (uncountable)

1. The degree of faithfulness of a model to the real biological system it is based on.
   • 2016 January 20, “Human Engineered Cardiac Tissues Created Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveal Functional Characteristics of BRAF-Mediated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Two-dimensional human cell culture models of HCM are species-specific but lack biofidelity and do not measure contractility.

Related terms

• biofidelic