Source: MIT Technology Review
Date: May 08, 2007
Summary:
MIT Technology Review covers an advance in stem cell research in which embryonic stem cells have been turned into blood vessels:
"An efficient new method to generate what appears to be a novel type of stem cell could be a boon to diseases linked to lack of blood flow. Scientists in Massachusetts and Florida have developed a way to coax embryonic stem cells into a more adult form of stem cell that has the potential to form blood vessels. The new type of cells helped repair tissue in animals that had had heart attacks or eye damage due to diabetes."
