Self-starter A gene inserted into ordinary heart cells transformed them into rare "pacemaker" cells that regulate cardiac rhythm, according to experiments carried out on lab rodents. The research ...

one cell -- the pacemaker cell -- beats faster or slower to induce a rhythmic heartbeat that varies to increase or decrease the blood flow to the body as we eat, sleep or exercise. "Disturbances ...

A gene inserted into ordinary heart cells transformed them into rare “pacemaker” cells that regulate cardiac rhythm, according to experiments carried out on lab rodents. The research is a step ...

The world's first optical pacemaker has been devised. Powerful, but very short, laser pulses can help control the beating of heart muscle cells. The world's first optical pacemaker has been devised.

U.S. scientists have created a “biological” pacemaker to keep the heart beating ... “The TBX18 gene converts ordinary heart cells, of which there are billions in the human heart, into ...