Patients get world's first 'home-grown' blood vessels

Two kidney patients from Argentina have received the world’s first blood vessels grown in a lab dish from snippets of their own skin, in an exciting step towards helping people with a variety of diseases, it emerged today.

Patients get world's first 'home-grown' blood vessels

Two kidney patients from Argentina have received the world’s first blood vessels grown in a lab dish from snippets of their own skin, in an exciting step towards helping people with a variety of diseases, it emerged today.

Doctors hope the technique will some day offer a new source of arteries and veins for diabetics with poor circulation and patients of heart bypass or dialysis.

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