Taking Tissue Engineering to Heart

Elie Dolgin • September 7, 2011

More than a decade after Japanese scientists implanted the first bioengineered blood vessel into a child with a congenital heart defect, the experimental treatment has finally made its way into clinical testing in the United States.

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