Seeing Arrhythmias in a Dish
April 14, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
In research near the heart of personalized medicine, bioengineers at Simon Frazer University (Burnaby, British Columbia) have succeeded in inducing pluripotent stem cells from skin into becoming cardiomyocytes, but they aim to do the same with white blood cells. The original donor cells were from patients with cardiac arrhythmias; so, the transformed cells have the same potential to present the illness. Being able to culture these induced cardiomyocytes could then lead to personalized treatments. MORE
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