Comments on: Could Stem Cells Patch Up a Broken Heart?

By: Joe DeMarsico

Joe DeMarsico — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:30:56 +0000

Perhaps you are unaware of the spectacular cardiac Aastrom Bioscience clinical FDA trials phase II. Aastrom uses autologous adult stem cells.

http://www.aastrom.com/corporate/ClinicalPrograms.cfm

Here is feed back on the first patient Thomas Clegg.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/heart/2009/07/02/embryonic-stem-cells–and-other-stem-cells–promise-to-advance-treatments.html

By: Claire C Smith

Claire C Smith — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:10:17 +0000

very interesting

Claire

By: YouRang

YouRang — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:06:10 +0000

I thought striated muscle came from mesoderm cells and that endothelium came from ectoderm? (Don’t recall where smooth muscle came from, but I thought it was also mesoderm; so I can understand a common origin for smooth and striated cells–but for endothelium?)