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Making and using acellular blood vessels, it's pretty damn cool!

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Making and using acellular blood vessels, it's pretty damn cool!
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RE: Making and using acellular blood vessels, it's pretty damn cool!
May 31, 2019 at 12:14 pm
(May 30, 2019 at 9:48 pm)wyzas Wrote: Blood vessel collagen shells grown in a lab and used for transplant. In time they take on the hosts cellular characteristics. The best part, no immune/graft worries (one type fits all) and they become self healing and fight infection. Basically coverts into the hosts own blood vessel.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/tag/human-...ar-vessel/

The company site: https://www.humacyte.com/what-we-do/

We could do with a good deal more biotech of this sort.

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RE: Making and using acellular blood vessels, it's pretty damn cool! - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 31, 2019 at 12:14 pm

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