Progress to growing capillaries

“Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have demonstrated a key step on the path to generate implantable tissues with functioning capillaries.

They showed how to use a combination of human endothelial cells and mesenchymal stem cells to initiate a process called tubulogenesis that is crucial to the formation of blood-transporting capillaries…”

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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/07/progress-to-growing-capillaries.html