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'Repair kit' for human heart shows some promise

Published November 28, 2008, 9:24 pm, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A local doctor and his research team are ready to test a repair kit for the human heart, now that they've proved that a similar stem-cell procedure helped repair human bladders.

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