Source: Bloomberg News
Posted: August 28, 2007 04:36:34 AM PDT
Summary:
"Geron Corp. researchers reported that cardiac cells derived from human embryos helped rats recover from a heart attack. In the most recent research, published Sunday, the human cells formed cardiac muscle and kept the rats from getting heart failure, a chronic condition that damages the organ's ability to pump blood. The success was enabled by two cocktails the scientists mixed up — one that helped the stem cells turn into cardiac cells in large numbers in a laboratory dish, and another that let them survive in the rodents' hearts."
