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Stem cell czar: UM researcher leads alternative effort

Dr. Joshua Hare with patientDr. Joshua Hare believes medicine is close to a goal long thought to be impossible: healing the human heart.

The way to get there? Stem cells.

''These could be as big as antibiotics were in the last century,'' says Hare, the researcher heading up the University of Miami's new Stem Cell Institute. ``Stem cells have the potential to have that kind of impact. Diseases like heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, liver failure -- we will be able to transition them into things you live with.''  Read More...

Published Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:34 AM by clementlawyer

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