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ARTICLE | Tools & Techniques

Building blood vessels

November 13, 2014 8:00 AM UTC

A new way to build blood vessels for revascularizing ischemic tissues could be the upshot of a protocol designed by researchers at the

Indiana University that generates mass quantities of endothelium-forming cells.1 The protocol could solve the supply problems that limit umbilical cord blood use in vascular injury diseases, but achieving efficiency and scale for manufacturing are the next challenges...