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Subject: Virus Rebuilds Heart's Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests.

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The heartbeat is controlled by electrical signals and if these go awry the consequences can be fatal.

Scientists injected a genetically-modified virus into guinea pigs to turn part of their heart into a new, working pacemaker.

They used a virus to infect heart muscle cells with a gene, called Tbx18, which is normally active when pacemaker cells are formed during normal development in an embryo.

When heart cells were infected with the virus they became smaller, thin and tapered as they acquired the "distinctive features of pacemaker cells", the report said.

When the virus was injected into a region of the hearts of seven guinea pigs, five later had heartbeats which originated from their new pacemaker.


This is pretty awesome. Thoughts?

  • 12.16.2012 11:04 AM PDT

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That would be a great way to reanimate the dead, causing them to rise and et the living.

Just saying...

  • 12.16.2012 11:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
That would be a great way to reanimate the dead, causing them to rise and et the living.

Just saying...



This would give a whole new meaning to 3 lifetimes in jail

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  • 12.16.2012 11:06 AM PDT

Now lets start a zombie Apocalpse. Time for humanity to learn to love one another through struggling to survive.

  • 12.16.2012 11:07 AM PDT

What if this ends up like "I Am Legend."

  • 12.16.2012 11:08 AM PDT

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  • 12.16.2012 11:09 AM PDT
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So basically they are giving you a new heart??

  • 12.16.2012 11:25 AM PDT

Bones of my enemies.

It's the zombie apocalypse.

  • 12.16.2012 11:28 AM PDT