Love handles leave bedroom and enter laboratory research
By Alissa Irvin | February 21, 2002Plastic Surgery Prof. Adam Katz may bring love handles back in style. Katz has found that discarded fat tissue may be an excellent source of stem cells, which potentially can develop into any of the 220 cell types that make up the human body. "A patient could in the future use their own fat cells to heal themselves," Katz said. Stem cells often are called pluripotent because of their unique ability to transform into other kinds of cells.
