WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Researchers have succeeded in turning ordinary cardiac muscle cells into specialized ones that deliver a steady heartbeat using a gene therapy procedure they predict ...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — "Somatic reprogramming is a strategy in which we are not modifying a single part of the cell, but we are reprogramming a normal cell to transform it into a pacemaker cell," said ...

Electrical pacemakers have become a backbone in therapeutic intervention for slow heart rhythms resulting from conduction system disease. Although decades of innovations have greatly improved the ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human heart cell atlas to date, including the specialized tissue of the cardiac conduction system—where the heartbeat originates. The team ...

Scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network, have developed the first functional pacemaker cells from human stem cells, paving the way for alternate, ...

Analysis of an invasive brain cancer reveals that networks of tumour cells are linked to small groups of ‘pacemaker’ cells in which levels of calcium ions pulse periodically, driving a signal through ...

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialised tissue of the cardiac ...

Share on Pinterest SARS-CoV-2 can infect the heart’s pacemaker cells, causing rhythm problems. the_burtons/Getty Images All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the 'pacemaker' controlling yeast cell division lies inside the nucleus rather than outside it, as previously thought. Having the pacemaker ...