Abra-Cadaver! Blood Vessels Come to Life

摘要

>A healthy heart needs healthy vessels to pump oxygen to the rest of the body. Cardiovascular diseases can damage these vessels, and current treatments — like grafting vessels from elsewhere in a persons body or from synthetic sources — come with serious risks. But in March, a team of research-ers announced in Science Translational Medicine that they had made vessels in the lab that, once transplanted into people, can turn into functionally living tissue.