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Title: How do we build better artificial blood vessels?
Post by: thedoc on 08/02/2011 18:56:55

The field of arterial graft surgery looks set to take a big leap forward thanks to a breakthrough by US scientists.  Writing in Science Translational Medicine, Shannon Dahl, a researcher with the North Carolina-based bioengineering company Humacyte, has described a method for making large, very strong, biocompatible artery grafts...

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Title: How do we build better artificial blood vessels?
Post by: thedoc on 08/02/2011 18:56:55