Umbilical cord cells outperform bone marrow cells in repairing damaged hearts
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 23:31
in Health & Medicine
A new study has shown that cells derived from the umbilical cord are more effective in restoring heart function after an acute myocardial infarction (in common parlance, a heart attack) in a pre-clinical model than a similar cell population derived from bone marrow.