Article: 1st blood vessels `grown'

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have produced for the first time artificial blood vessels from cells grown in the laboratory.

The living blood vessels hold great promise for replacing small blood vessels dam aged by diabetes, blood-vessel diseases or limb damage, the scientists said.

Availability could come only after successful tests in animals and human beings, a process that may take at least five years.

Crispin Weinberg and Eugene Bell of MIT report in the current issue of Science that they developed the living blood vessels by using ...

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