Laser Controls the Pace of a Beating Heart

Yvonne Carts-Powell

Michael W. Jenkins and others at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University demonstrated that pulsed infrared light can control the pace of a quail heart.

 

Scatterings imageOptical pacing of the embryonic heart.

Noncontact optical control of an embryonic heart will help researchers learn how congenital heart defects occur and how heart tissue might be grown.

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