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 ...

With a new $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigators are moving closer to their goal of developing a biological pacemaker that can treat ...

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 ...

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