Building Flesh and Blood; Understanding how networks of blood vessels form is key to engineering transplantable organs and tissues. May 01, 2014 Thousands of unfortunate patients are badly in need of a replacement organ. As of April 2014, more than 122,000 such people in the United States were on the waiting list maintained by the national... Read More Building Flesh and Blood; Understanding how networks of blood vessels form is key to engineering transplantable organs and tissues.
Human blood vessels grown in mouse offer hope to heart attack patients July 18, 2008 Scientists have grown human blood vessels in a mouse for the first time using cells taken from an adult donor.