Thursday, 15 August 2013

Reprograming Adult Cells to Produce Blood Vessels

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New network of blood vessels (green) grown from reprogrammed adult human cells (blue: connective tissue, red: red blood cells)

08/15/2013 09:00 AM EDT

Individuals with heart disease, diabetes, and non-healing ulcers (which can lead to amputation) could all benefit greatly from new blood vessels to replace those that are diseased, damaged, or blocked. But engineering new blood vessels hasn’t yet been possible. Although we’ve learned how to reprogram human skin cells or white blood cells into so-called induced […]

 


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