'Pulsed low-energy stimulation initiates electric turbulence in cardiac tissue' accepted at PLoS Computational Biology

The publication Pulsed low-energy stimulation initiates electric turbulence in cardiac tissue got accepted at PLoS Computational Biology. The paper describes the use of optogenetics to demonstrate a heretofore unidentified mechanism of wavebreak initiation, in the absence of standard markers of excitable medium vulnerability. This finding is an important contribution to cardiac arrhythmia research as it identifies how low-energy perturbations to cardiac rhythm can be potentially life-threatening, and render a defibrillation strategy to backfire.