Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels Offer Hope to Kidney Dialysis Patients

University of Minnesota scientists say they have created a lab-grown blood vessel replacement composed of biological materials, but without living cells at implantation. The vessel, that could be used as an off-the-shelf graft for kidney dialysis patients, showed positive results in a recent study with nonhuman primates, according to the researchers.It reportedly is the first-of-its-kind nonsynthetic, decellularized graft that becomes repopulated with cells by the recipient's own cells when