Scientists Grow Blood Vessels Using Skin Cells

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 16, 2005 @03:28PM from the younger-looking-veins dept.

rubberbando writes "The new york times is running a story about how scientists have discovered a way to grow new blood vessels using skin cells. Since the blood vessels are grown using the patient's own skin cells, there isn't any chance for rejection. This looks to be quite a boon for people who have several damaged blood vessels from diseases such as diabetes. Perhaps one day they will be able to apply this technology/technique to creating other parts of the body and rid us of the whole stem cell controversy. Only time will tell."

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hmm.. interesting... by way2trivial · 2005-11-16 15:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

there are surgeons who specialize (at least partly) in bloodless surgeries, as some folks have religious beliefs that deny them blood donated from others...

wonder how this tech gets interpreted by the religious leaders... permissible or no....

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Re:Hope At Last by segment · 2005-11-16 16:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

lynx -dump "http://tinyurl.com/bsu7d" |sed -n '106p' |sed 's/est/ its/g;s/z/s/'|awk '{print $5,$7,$4}'

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