Human blood vessels grown in mice (BBC)

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Scientists have used human cells to grow new blood vessels in a mouse for the first time, a US journal reports.

It could eventually help patients who had suffered heart attacks, they said.

A mixture of "progenitor" cells, taken from blood and bone marrow, made cells lining the vessels, and also those surrounding the lining.

A UK expert said that the Harvard research was "promising", and could eventually help lab-grown organs to be implanted successfully.

The ability to develop swiftly a new network of tiny blood vessels - known as capillaries - would be a prize for scientists
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[Ian David]

1. Sorry... human-animal hybrids are bad. You're either with Bush, or you're with the switchgrass. n/t

[Orrex]

2. God, schmod. I want my monkey-man

Why are human-animal hybrids bad, exactly?

[Ian David]

3. Because Der Bushenfuhrer says so. n/t

[Orrex]

4. Hell, that's all the reason I need

Down with hybrids!