The promise of using stem cells in various treatments for all types of ailments continues to garner national and global attention these days ... but would you believe that stem cells from fatty tissue could eve be used in the heart itself? Sounds like an oxymoron, eh?

But, doctors have accomplished just that -- liposuction stem cells were used to transplant into a patient's heart recently in an odd reversal of fortune medical situation. It's odd that stem cells fro a part of the body that is a result of excess fat (most likely) was used to repair heart tissue in semi-breakthrough fashion.