image: The researchers implanted the human acellular vessel (yellow arrows) into the forearm of a patient with end-stage renal failure. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 27, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.D Kirkton at Humacyte Inc. in Durham, NC; and colleagues was titled, "Bioengineered human acellular vessels recellularize and evolve into living blood vessels after human implantation." view more
Credit: R.D. Kirkton <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)