Researchers use stroke patient's own stem cells in trial for first time
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 15:42
in Health & Medicine
For the first time in the United States, a stroke patient has been intravenously injected with his own bone marrow stem cells as part of a research trial at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
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