Image via Wikipedia South Florida continues to grow in importance as a medical research hub. If you did not see it, the Miami Herald did a very good story on one of Miami's recent arrivals: Dr. Joshua Hare.
Stem cell czar: UM researcher leads alternative effort
Stem cell czar: UM researcher leads alternative effort
By FRED TASKER of the Miami Herald
Dr. 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.''
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