A new way to replace a patient’s damaged blood vessels may be on its way, as researchers in France are figuring out a way to “knit” new vessels with a collagen-based extracellular matrix.

Inserm researcher Nicolas L’Heureux and his colleagues at Inserm/Université de Bordeaux’s tissue bioengineering unit published a study in Acta Biomaterialia to outline their work in cultivating human cells to obtain extracellular matrix deposits that are high in collagen, which can be cut to form a yarn-type material to replace damaged blood vessels, according to a news release.

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