Patients with chronic heart failure given injections of their own bone marrow stem cells have better heart function and live longer

Herald Sun: 23 August 2010
Australian Financial Review 23 August 2010
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PLoS One
A Combined Epigenetic and Non-Genetic Approach for Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells,
Jinnuo Han, Perminder S. Sachdev, Kuldip S. Sidhu*
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UNSW Stem Cell Lab

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