Source: The Washington Times
Date: February 14, 2006
Summary:
Rsearchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute in Baltimore are hoping that dying hearts can be made new. Because of recent research, many doctors believe the heart has regenerative capacity. The study's lead researcher has been enrolling heart attack patients in a trial to see if mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow can regenerate a damaged heart. He previously performed trials with pig hearts.
