Pitt's Little Lab strives to enhance body's own healing

Steven Little wants to make medicine as smart as the human body.

When something goes wrong with our bodies today, medicine's solution is often to cut it out, burn it out or treat it with medication.

But the goal of the Little Lab at the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine is to enhance the body's already highly intelligent healing mechanisms, Mr. Little said in an interview last week.

Read more in the January 9  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .