The improper timing of the human heartbeat can now be connected to the arcana of potassium channel gating. What is more, it turns out that a bizarre kind of ion-channel behaviour is in fact quite conformist.
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Miller, C. The inconstancy of the human heart. Nature 379, 767–768 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379767a0
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