The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: Hoodat on January 17, 2019, 01:14:16 am
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possible to grow functioning human blood vessels in another species
A team of researchers has managed to grow “perfect†human blood vessels in a Petri dish and a non-human animal for the first time.
As detailed in a study published Tuesday in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0858-8.epdf?referrer_access_token=IrsAmg8_9COUGtWmUA4S5tRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PA0ohqHtSGASR1-CGqSr4cEBU8fAExzqCDix5aLaA9O2ZzFlQGpoA6aZ_YsMVtKNfv3GL0N7s6bibYANScSQRRsJNU8U4RwR1joNzsxJmpWG9yHZmucwLUeS7aWMNPflol_QdHQON4xLDeHbtZGmEsunX761K0npUHi1zffVi5p5KL2ftvVzo1b9UOo3nBNL_1voL3hQ8sQLFebDE4ZPPRut09f29GxXLtC6L9e1HxtVnn_RF-ejrzt5zkkHy80glzcPVVyURDpseHs3H9Uavi&tracking_referrer=motherboard.vice.com), organoids—biomasses grown from stem cells that mimic human organs—were grown after researchers identified an important pathway that prevents changes to blood vessels, a major cause of death in diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
“Being able to build human blood vessels as organoids from stem cells is a game changer,†Josef Penninger, director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “Every single organ in our body is linked with the circulatory system [so] this could potentially allow researchers to unravel the causes and treatments for a variety of vascular diseases.†. . .
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa579z/researchers-create-perfect-blood-vessels-in-a-petri-dish-for-the-first-time (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa579z/researchers-create-perfect-blood-vessels-in-a-petri-dish-for-the-first-time)
Chalk up yet another victory for adult stem cell research.