Source: University of Bristol
Date: June 21, 2007
Summary:
Stem cell researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom have announced the start of a clinical trial to treat heart heart attack patients with their own bone marrow stem cells:
"In the first trial of its kind in the world, 60 patients who have recently suffered a major heart attack will be injected with selected stem cells from their own bone marrow during routine coronary bypass surgery. The Bristol trial will test whether the stem cells will repair heart muscle cells damaged by the heart attack, by preventing late scar formation and hence impaired heart contraction."
