By Izzy Wood – Drug Target Review
US researchers combine revascularisation techniques to allow new blood vessels to rapidly form in an architecturally organised manner.
The ability to regenerate and pattern blood vessels remains an elusive milestone in regenerative medicine. Known as tissue revascularisation, stimulating blood vessel growth and pattern formation in damaged or diseased tissues could accelerate the field of regenerative medicine, according to Penn State researchers, US.
With a four-year, $3 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Penn State Chemical Engineering and Reconstructive Surgery researchers plan to develop a new way to help restore soft tissue loss in patients through two coordinating revascularisation techniques.