"Beauty is a light in the heart": the transformative potential of optogenetics for clinical applications in cardiovascular medicine.

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Published in Trends Cardiovasc Med on October 16, 2014

Authors

Patrick M Boyle1, Thomas V Karathanos2, Natalia A Trayanova2

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 316 Hackerman Hall, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: pmjboyle@jhu.edu.
2: Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 316 Hackerman Hall, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

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