Cardiac optogenetics: controlling the heart with light

Sasha B. Forbes

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Sasha Forbes

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I'm excited to share my recent article published in Nature Reviews Cardiology this month! This was possible thanks to a collaboration between NRC and the BHF that gave BHF PhD students the opportunity to write a short Journal Club article on an influential study in our field. I discussed the first paper to demonstrate that we can control the heart using light by a technique called cardiac optogenetics. This technique offers lots of exciting possibilities across a wide range of areas in cardiac electrophysiology and could lead to novel therapies for patients with abnormal heart rhythm in the future


First published: 20 January 2025

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