Lowly fat cells may hold key to healthier hearts

September 28, 2009

It’s a common refrain: Fat is bad for your heart. But locked inside the same substance that can clog arteries and add inches to your waistline are stem cells that promise to heal damaged hearts. Those stem cells are the subject of a decades-long quest by University of Louisville professor Stuart Williams that began when he became curious about leftover fat from a Nobel Prize-winning colleague’s research. (The Courier-Journal)