Cloning And Stem Cell News, Research and Resources - September 2006 Archives
Dr. Andreas M. Zeiher is the chair of the Department of Medicine at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
in Frankfurt and senior author of a study that has infused stem cells onto a damaged hearts. The stem
cells, harvested from the patients' own bone marrow, were then injected onto the heart in a single operation.
The operation was performed on several patients who had suffered a heart attack months, years, and even decades
before.
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Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Massachusetts have taken there stem cell technology to the next
step by implanting its retinal cells into rats.
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Phase one clinical trials for a procedure to rejuvenate damaged heart tissue have begun.
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