stem cell research heart

3 in your health - the ongoing stem cell research in our state - that benefits all of us. scientists are hard at work -- in their pursuit of medical advancement in treatment and therapy. news 8 medical reporter jocelyn

maminta - with a look at what yale researchers are doing in the fight against heart disease. cardio-vascular disease is the number one killer disease is the cardio-vascular disease is the number one killer in the u.s. for both men and women.

what these yale scientists are doing with stem cells -- could make a huge impact. you are looking at bio-engineered smooth tissue -- made of stem cells -- induced from blood cells 'directly' taken from patients with cardiovascular disease.

an example of the ongoing work at yale cardiovascular research and stem cell centers. "it's helping." yale scientist - dr. biraja dash - led the team that created this - which mimics a human blood vessel. the goal -- to test the effectiveness

of approved f-d-a drugs - for potential use among heart patients. "with the ring, we can literally see whether these movements are going on inside or not, so if we treat it with a drug and the smooth muscles doesn't grow in, then that's the drug

for you to go to the next level for clinic."still - it's likely five years away from benefiting patients. "our scientists are very excited to discover new medicines or new cardiovascular tissue to treat patients with cardiovascular disease." dr. yibing qyang

says they are taking a more personalized stem cell approach -- constructing tissue-- to treat specific groups of patients. "then we can test multiple drugs on the target and find the most efficacious drug that can treat the patient." and

there's more. this beating ring -- a potential bypass - the concept of dr. jiesi luo "for some patient -with a problem in their septum in the heart, so it's a by-pass and they need to feed the blood directly to the pulmonary artery." the advancements here

-- thanks to state and federal funding. most of the research -- is at least five years away from patients actually benefitting from it.truly amazing work