Blood vessel cells are instructed to form tube-like structures
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 12:14
in Health & Medicine
How do blood vessel cells understand that they should organise themselves in tubes and not in layers? A research group from Uppsala University shows for the first time that a special type of "instructor" molecule is needed to accomplish this. These findings, published in the scientific journal Blood, might be an important step towards using stem cells to build new organs.