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The world’s smallest pacemaker is injectable and powered by light
A team of engineers at Northwestern University have created the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s activated by light and can be inserted via syringe.
The engineers published their findings in Nature and noted that the device works with both animal and human hearts. “About one percent of children are born with congenital heart defects,” said Northwestern experimental cardiologist Igor Efimov, who co-led the study. Rogers imagines a world in which physicians inject a number of these pacemakers simultaneously, to enable sophisticated synchronization.
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