Virus Rebuilds Heart's Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests 45
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."
First Steps (Score:4, Informative)
First step along the road to creating the Solanum virus [wikipedia.org]?
Re:Scared (Score:5, Informative)
This doesn't look much different from how the heart regulates itself naturally [wikipedia.org]. It's definitely more natural than a machine pacemaker, and also has less chance to fail. The only problem is that it's much harder to control, unless they find a way to hook it up to the nervous system your heartbeat will be pretty much constant.