The bio-engineered blood vessels are taken from a postnatal donor’s skin cells and then developed within a laboratory. The process creates vessel-like tubes, and these can be transferred into a ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel ...

Scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these vessels can cause them to leak, leading to conditions such as ...

Humacyte (HUMA) is advancing the field of regenerative medicine with its lab-grown blood vessels, known as acellular tissue-engineered vessels (ATEVs), poised to transform treatment options for ...

Two separate teams of researchers have found a way to grow blood vessels within lab-grown organs. The creation of miniature organs in the lab, such as tiny replicas of hearts, livers, and lungs, has ...

Complex artificial organs could be created by 3D printing a mould of veins, arteries and capillaries in ice, casting that in organic material and then allowing the ice to melt away, resulting in a ...

Each year, about 185,000 people in the United States undergo amputation. Nearly half of those are due to injured blood vessels cutting off circulation to a limb. Surgeons can transplant an intact vein ...

A new collaborative study by Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center marks a significant advance toward noninvasive ...

Developers of a lab-grown blood vessel designed to save life and limb in emergency scenarios appear to be promoting its use in surgeries far beyond what the Food and Drug Administration has approved ...

Cambridge scientists have grown small blood vessel-like models in the lab and used them to show how damage to the scaffolding that supports these vessels can cause them to leak, leading to conditions ...