ECG – stem cells to pacemaker cells

About 600,000 people have implanted cardiac pacemakers to treat arrhythmias and low heartbeat.  Cardio-innovators at the University of Houston believe that a biological pacemaker, based on induced pluripotent stem cells, have an improvement to offer—e.g. no battery.   With transformed cells, originally derived from fat, “cardiac progenitor cells are being programmed to keep hearts beating as a sinoatrial node (SAN), part of the electrical cardiac conduction system (CCS).” MORE

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