Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker explains, during an April 17, 2008 Pentagon press conference, how medical researchers are growing a new ear for a badly burned Marine using stem cells from his own body. This is just one area of advanced treatment to be explored by the new Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the establishment of which was announced by Schoomaker and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. S. Ward Casscells at the press conference. R. D. Ward

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