Artificial blood vessels mimic rare accelerated aging disease

Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 07:32 in Health & Medicine

Biomedical engineers have grown miniature human blood vessels that exhibit many of the symptoms and drug reactions associated with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome — an extremely rare genetic disease that causes symptoms resembling accelerated aging in ... Read more

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