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Sunday, July 20, 2014

This Pacemaker Is Made By Injecting a Virus Right into a Pig's Heart

This Pacemaker Is Made By Injecting a Virus Right into a Pig's Heart


Pacemakers are—even at their tiniest —intrusive bits of metal wired into the heart. But now scientists have come up with something completely different: a "biological pacemaker" in a pig made by reprogramming the heart's own cells with a modified virus carrying a specific gene.


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An interesting read via Gizmodo


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