McEwen Centre scientists produce functional heart pacemaker cells (VIDEO)

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This is an in-vitro (petri dish) demonstration of pacemaker heart cells generated from human stem cells from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine. Shown are a cluster of human pacemaker cells on top of a sheet of human heart muscle cells. The pacemaker cells initiate and regulate the heartbeat of the heart cells below.

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