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Virus Rebuilds Heart's Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests

Posted by timothy on from the old-ways-is-best-ways dept.

hugheseyau writes "A new pacemaker has been built inside a heart by converting beating muscle into cells which can organise the organ's rhythm, U.S. researchers report. Scientists injected a genetically-modified virus into guinea pigs to turn part of their heart into a new, working pacemaker."

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  1. I for one by alendit · · Score: 1, Funny

    welcome our virus-enhanced guinea pig overlords!

  2. Re:how if someone with this virus dying? by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, he will just turn into a zombie. And, as everybody knows, zombies feel no pain.