Seaweed and fireflies brew may guide stem cell treatment for peripheral artery disease

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 20:42 in Health & Medicine

An unlikely brew of seaweed and glow-in-the-dark biochemical agents may hold the key to the safe use of transplanted stem cells to treat patients with severe peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according to a team of veterinarians, basic scientists and interventional radiologists at Johns Hopkins.

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