The future of personalized medicine: Technion team built blood tree from scratch
Currently, transplanted grafts need to be implanted into a healthy part of the body so that the patient can generate new blood vessels to support it.
Engineered blood vessels in Technion study. Vascular structures in the scaffold lumen (brown) communicate with vessels located in the surrounding hydrogel (green).(photo credit: Courtesy)ByHADAS LABRISCH