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The answer is*drum roll*

Whole cell patch clamping!

I will also accept "girl, idk what this is."

Patch clamping is one of the techniques that I use to record electrical activity of heart cells which can inform us of normal or abnormal behavior.
Where do these cells come from? Since I can't use this technique to measure electrical activity from an actual human heart in the lab, we make our own!

As you can see here, I was shook. I mean, we make heart cells from scratch and they start beating! WILD.
Here's THE BEST PART

Okay so boom, we make these heart cells (healthy or diseased)

I record their electrical profile, so we know what looks healthy & what doesn't

THEN, I add the (potential) therapy we're developing to the cells & measure its effect on their electrical profile
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