- Skin cells to grow human vein

  • 19/02/1998

Scientists have grown the first all-human replacement part--a 5-cm vein--and implanted it in dog. The breakthrough is set to transform heart surgery by giving doctors a new source of replacement veins for bypass operations. Team leader Nicolas L'Heureux of the University of California, San Diego, said such possibilities had been opened up by the invention of a chemical-filled tank, the bio reactor.