If this works, imagine the lives it will save or extend. Yet, 7 minutes after posting no other responses? Sure, it’s not important like the Oscars, but still .....
I caught the abstract already. So I searched Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel in Google News. There were only 6 stories!
If this is successful it will be a giant step forward in cardiac rehabilitation. My nephew is a biomedical engineer and I understand little about the science. Thankfully there are many very intelligent young people.
It will be interesting to see if a repair is effective when administered years after a MI incident.
So much for a break through that older people who suffer the most heart attacks will not be able to use. Thanks to ObamaCare.
Looking forward to seeing the data collected from human trials and especially, the results from long term studies. This treatment sounds very promising.
Two things:
1. That the body can even use this is amazing and just shows you how dynamically formed we are.
2. Given this story and the real miracle that American medicine is why do we have Obamacare?
Have you listened to this or read the transcript?:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/07/scott_atlas_on.html
We’ve been tricked by the Left again. My rule is go to the original source whenever available. The Left will lie about anything to get its way and they did it on health care.
I wonder how this would work if it was combined with bone marrow stem cells mentioned in the article the other day.
Might also work with badly sprained ligaments...Ligaments are slow to heal due to very low blood supply going to them. A badly strained ligament is not torn in half. It has many micro-tears that heal as scar tissue so the ligament may not be as good and resilient as it once was.
Maybe this injection can help
http://getprolo.com/why_ligaments_do_not_heal_on_their_own.htm