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Stem-Cell Biology

Researchers get stem cells to form blood vessels

Published in Blood Weekly, January 8th, 2004

A team of research biologists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has succeeded for the first time in inducing human embryonic stem cells to differentiate into the cells that make up blood vessels and to actually form the vessels themselves.

The work will make possible the growth of blood vessels to repair the heart and other organs, as well as provide a way to study blood vessel formation. Such studies could be used in developing new ways to stop cancer, among other applications.

The team's work, led by Prof. Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor of the faculty of medicine and including graduate student Sharon Gerecht-Nir, is reported in Laboratory...

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