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Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Heart.
Byline: Ronald Kotulak
Nov. 18--A promising experimental procedure for repairing badly damaged hearts by injecting them with millions of cells grown from patients' own muscles or bone marrow may provide a new treatment for congestive heart failure, one of the nation's biggest killers, three medical teams announced Sunday.
The technique is a taste of the great potential that stem cells hold for treating and even reversing common diseases that fail to respond to current medical practices. Yet this technique is simpler, using muscle and bone marrow cells that are the mature offspring of stem cells.
Scientists and biotech drug companies are rushing to develop the cell transplant technique in hopes it will be the first effective therapy for congestive heart failure, an often debilitating disorder that kills…
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