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 ...

LOS ANGELES – Cardiologists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have developed a minimally invasive gene transplant procedure that changes unspecialized heart cells into "biological pacemaker" cells ...

Injecting a gene directly into the heart may be able to replace the need for an electronic pacemaker, according to new research by scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Tested in pigs, the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- No batteries required: Scientists are creating a biological pacemaker by injecting a gene into the hearts of sick pigs that changed ordinary cardiac cells into a special kind that ...

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 ...

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, ...

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