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This pacemaker is made by injecting a virus right into a pig’s heart

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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.
via Gizmodo

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Image: Science Translational Medicine

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