Scientists have successfully transformed guinea-pig heart-muscle cells into pacemaker cells, paving the way for a biological alternative to artificial pacemakers. Pacemaker cells generate ...

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Researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene -- a major step forward in the decade-long search for a ...

node pacemaker cells. These cardiac cells were grown from human embryonic stem cells. A biological pacemaker is one or more types of cellular components that, when "implanted or injected into ...

In doing so, cardiologists at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles created "biological pacemaker" cells that restored a normal heart rate in the pigs. The procedure achieved the same result ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Implantable electronic pacemakers are some of the most common heart procedures done every year. But what if doctors could turn your own cells into pacemakers? Around ...

The heart's natural pacemaker cells emit an electrical pulse that prompts the heart to beat and control its rhythm. If these pacemaker cells die, surgeons can implant electronic implants to ...

"Although we and others have created primitive biological pacemakers before, this study is the first to show that a single gene can direct the conversion of heart muscle cells to genuine pacemaker ...