physician scientists

Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition?

Physician-scientists are setting out to answer that question in a first-ever clinical trial of gene therapy to treat severe heart failure.

Physician-scientists believe that stem cells might play a harmful role in the body's reaction to trauma following common vascular surgery, like angioplasty.

They are currently studying how stem cells implant themselves in the wall of arteries and grow out of control.