VA Researchers to Focus on Healing Power of Stem Cells

[Monkeyman]

British scientists announced this week they have successfully grown parts of a human heart from stem cells. Utah researchers are on the brink of yet another stem cell project here in Salt Lake.

Five Utah hospitals and lab at the University of Utah have become partners to see if stem cells can repair a failing heart. The healing powers of stem cells are the focus of research across the country including here in Utah. "This is like Stars Wars medicine. It's incredibly exciting, and it's also incredibly humbling,"said Dr. James Long at LDS Hospital.

If clinical trails are approved for Salt Lake Veterans Hospital, stem cells pulled from bone marrow or discarded umbilical cords will be screened and processed. For the trial itself, stem cells from bone marrow will be injected back into the patient's failing heart.

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[lazer47]

1. I wish them all the luck in the world and hope Congress funds

it like they should, I also wish they would come up with a cure for a wounded or killed SPIRIT