Team designs a bandage that spurs, guides blood vessel growth
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have developed a bandage that stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound. The bandage, called a "microvascular stamp," contains living cells that deliver growth factors to damaged tissues in a defined pattern. After a week, the pattern of the stamp "is written in blood vessels," the researchers report.
