Dutch medical biologist Dr. Guido Krenning, of the University of Groningen, may be on to something here. According to Science Daily,
Improving the affected organ tissue can be realised not only by improving the blood supply from the major blood vessels. A diseased organ can repair itself by making new capillaries. By injecting stem cells from the patient’s blood into the affected organ, new capillaries are created. Injecting stem cells is currently being tested in clinical trials. Krenning’s research has produced so much knowledge about the functioning of these stem cells in controlling tissue regeneration, that tissue repair can also be instigated by imitating the instruction that stem cells give to the damaged tissue.
