Grow Blood Vessels to Grow Organs, Rice University Study

Futurity -- RICE (US) — A newly discovered way to grow blood vessels could be a game changer for efforts to grow replacement tissues and organs in the lab. “The inability to grow blood-vessel networks—or vasculature—in lab-grown tissues is the leading problem in regenerative medicine today,” says lead co-author Jennifer West, a bioengineering professor at Rice University.

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