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25 September 2026
Nerve–Heart Junction
We're well aware that our nervous system and heart are inexorably linked – how your heart thumps away if you're scared. To study that connection more easily, researchers have developed a lab-grown model of neuro-cardiac junctions by fusing a neuronal organoid with heart muscle cells, and used it to reveal details underlying irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias) associated with the potassium ion channel protein KCNH2 and how to rectify them
Read the published research article here
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- Video from work by Lennart Valentin Schneider and Michael Gani Setya and colleagues
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, September 2026
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