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June 25, 2012
Hope in a heartbeat
A cutting-edge method developed at the U-M Center for Arrhythmia Research is successfully creating heart cells capable of mimicking the heart’s crucial squeezing action from stem cells. The U-M team hopes that their research will help the 2.5 million people with arrhythmias, an irregularity in the heart’s electrical impulses that can impair its ability to pump blood.