A team of scientists from the University of Gothenburg has managed to grow new veins for a 10-year-old girl using her own stem cells—and then, in a medical first, successfully implant them into her body.The team explain in the Lancet that the girl had a blocked hepatic portal vein—the blood vessel which takes blood away from the gut and to the liver. The condition often results in internal bleeding, and the usual approach is to replace it with a section of healthy vein from elsewhere in the body.
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