Arrhythmia

Biological defibrillator to treat irregular heartbeat developed by Rambam, Technion

This breakthrough will eventually treat only diseased and not healthy cardiac cells, through a receptor causing a biological process in the heart.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
close-up image of a defibrillator
A magnified view of a CD34+ stem cell

Israeli team discovers cardiac arrhythmia-causing gene

“The mostly night-time atrial fibrillation was shown to be caused by a mutation in a gene (KCND2), encoding a crucial component of a potassium ion channel (Kv4.2) in the heart."

|ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN