Puget Sound Blood Center Create Artificial Blod Vessels For Research

Cool news out of  Seattle, Washington today. According to an article by Annie Zak of the Puget Sound Business Journal, researchers at the Puget Sound Blood Center Research Institute have found a way to replicate how human blood vessels work so they don’t need rodent test subjects anymore. A new device using a plastic square (as seen in the featured image on this article) smaller than your palm, researchers were able to create artificial blood vessels that will help them learn more about blood disorders, diseases and how blood vessels affect other health issues like cardiac arrest and stroke.

“This is an example of something we can do with these vessels to really study this,”researcher José López said. “I mean sure, you could kill 50 mice and try and figure this out and still you wouldn’t know if you could apply it to humans, and what we’re using here is all human…What we’ve done here, I think, is that we’ve really been able to connect these big blood vessel diseases to these small blood vessel diseases and show that there’s something common to the pathology of these things.”

Excellent, ongoing research being done in Washington – WeBleed will be sure to keep tabs on the great things PSBC continues to do.

Photo Credit – Puget Sound Blood Center

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