(See R.C.V. Tyser et al., "Calcium handling precedes cardiac differentiation to initiate the first heartbeat," eLife, doi:10.7554/eLife.17113, 2016.)
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Waves of calcium ions begin to propagate across cardiac cells in a mouse embryo just hours before the animal's first heartbeat.
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