Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)
Date: September 03, 2007
Summary:
Surgeons will soon be able to literally mend a broken heart using live tissue grown from a patient's very own stem cells, top cardiologists said. The whole procedure -- harvesting cells from bone marrow, growing tissue and surgically implanting the heart muscle or valve -- could take as little as six weeks and could become routine within three-to-five years, they reported.
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