Stem Cell Therapy: Healing Force of the future

Airing Saturday, May 19th at 7 p.m.

In this episode of Breakthrough Medicine, experts from the University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) use adult stem cells to repair organs and save lives. A heart attack victim receives his own stem cells in hopes of repairing his damaged heart muscle, and after all other methods have failed, patients with chronic wounds turn to a revolutionary study that heals broken skin.

Can you be saved by your own cells? Watch to find out how unlocking the powers of adult stem cells is changing medicine.