WEDNESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they have devised a process to create ready-made, easily stored blood vessels that may potentially be used for patients undergoing heart surgery or kidney dialysis. Using donor tissue cultured on biodegradable tube-shaped frames called scaffolds, researchers spent more than five years engineering the “off-the-shelf” blood vessels, which cannot be rejected by patients’ immune systems and are resistant to infection or clotting.
