#Engineering #Blood #Vessels Using #Shape-Morphing #Scaffolds

#Cardiovascular #disease is now the number one cause of #death #globally according to the #World #Health #Organization, with more than 17.5 million #patients dying from it every year. In recent years, #tissue #engineering has #emerged as a source of #functional #vascular #analogs for treating #cardiovascular disease. #Nevertheless, #three-dimensional (3D) #endothelialization remains a great challenge for tissue-#engineered #vascular grafts (TEVGs). #Chinese #Academy of #Sciences created a new #shape-morphing scaffold, that can be programmed into to a well-defined 3D #tubular shape to facilitate the 3D #endothelialization of small-diameter #vascular #grafts

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