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Stem Cells Used to Heal a Broken Heart

Posted by michael on from the if-only-it-were-that-easy dept.

roman_mir writes "Wired reports that a 16 year old teenager had a hole in his heart (a nail gun accident,) which was repaired by injecting stem cells directly into his heart. What is interesting is that the stem cells were taken from the boy's own blood."

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  1. My broken hearts by deblorvayn · · Score: 1, Funny

    Take that nasty cheerleaders from highschool!

  2. Quake related accident? by JimR · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...a 16 year old teenager had a hole in his heart (a nail gun accident)...

    Wow - I broke my thumb once and tried to convince people I'd sustained it during a particularly mouse intensive game of Quake II, but this is just going too far.

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    #exclude <ms/windows.h>