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This Blood Vessel Was Grown in a Lab With Real Human Cells
The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to help treat victims of traumatic injuries.
She remembers observing a patient undergoing a heart bypass, which involves using a healthy vessel to reroute blood flow around a blocked coronary artery. “This actually becomes part of the patient's body,” says Michael Curi, chief of vascular surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who coauthored the paper. Previously, she was an MIT Knight Science Journalism project fellow and a staff writer covering biotechnology at Medium's OneZero.
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