I read the article. It doesn’t give much detail regarding obtaining stem cells from the patient’s own heart. If that entailed invasive open-heart surgery It would seem to me to be a risky route. It also said stem cells could be obtained from donor organs. I thought there was an acute shortage of those; still, this might be a breakthrough.
” I thought there was an acute shortage of those; still, this might be a breakthrough.”
I think there is indeed a shortage of donor organs — as in transplanting entire organs, but the way I read it, they can save a lot of stem cells from one organ and you need only a small amount, so you can help a lot of people with the stem cells from one donor heart.