Towards Creating Blood Vessels
January 26, 2010 | Source: Technology Review
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College developed a simple way to increase production of endothelial cells — which line the interior of blood vessels and give rise to blood vessels — by more than 30-fold.
The cells might one day by used to create blood vessels in engineered tissue or administered to patients directly to repair injury after heart attack or stroke, resupplying blood to damaged organs.