10 Year Old Gets Vein Grown From Stem Cells

(BBC) – A 10-year-old girl has had a major blood vessel in her body replaced with one grown with her own stem cells, Swedish doctor’s report. She had poor blood flow between her intestines and liver. A vein was taken from a dead man, stripped of its own cells and then bathed in stem cells from the girl, according to a study published in the Lancet.

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