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Article: 1st blood vessels `grown'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 17, 1986
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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 ...