What Makes Your Ticker Tick?
Edinburgh Science Festival
Summerhall - ASCUS Lab
Workshop
We think heart health is as important as it is fascinating and therefore we
invite you to join us and cardiovascular researchers from the University
of Edinburgh in ASCUS Lab to explore the workings of your own heart and
see what makes your ticker tick! In this unique sensory and hands-on
workshop you will get the chance to peer inside your own heart as it
contracts, visualise the electrical impulses that are rushing through your
heart with every beat and see your own cheek cells glow down a microscope
using fluorescence microscopy technique. We will be on hand to chat to you
about health and disease and you'll even get to do a bit of 'real science'
yourself! Come play with our science tools including ECG, ultrasound and
stethoscopes and learn more about this tireless workhorse in all of us!
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