Source: Seattle Times
Date: August 26, 2007
Summary:
The Seattle Times reports on new experiments using human embryonic stem cells to re-grow heart muscles in rats:
"Human embryonic stem cells have been used to regrow the heart muscles of rats that had survived lab-induced heart attacks, scientists from the University of Washington and Geron, a biotechnology company in Menlo Park, Calif. reported. The scientists found a process to coax as many as half the cells into becoming heart-muscle cells, and secondly, a way to keep the cells alive. Not only did all the rats start getting new heart muscle, but they were protected from the progression of heart failure, Murry said. private biotechnology company reported."
