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Ten-year-old girl gets vein grown from her stem cells
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News
A 10-year-old girl has had a major blood vessel in her body replaced with one grown with her own stem cells, Swedish doctors report.
She had poor blood flow between her intestines and liver.
A vein was taken from a dead man, stripped of its own cells and then bathed in stem cells from the girl, according to a study published in the Lancet.
Surgeons said there was a "striking" improvement in her quality of life.
This is the latest is a series of body parts grown, or engineered, to match the tissue of the patient.
BBC News - Ten-year-old girl gets vein grown from her stem cells
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News
A 10-year-old girl has had a major blood vessel in her body replaced with one grown with her own stem cells, Swedish doctors report.
She had poor blood flow between her intestines and liver.
A vein was taken from a dead man, stripped of its own cells and then bathed in stem cells from the girl, according to a study published in the Lancet.
Surgeons said there was a "striking" improvement in her quality of life.
This is the latest is a series of body parts grown, or engineered, to match the tissue of the patient.
BBC News - Ten-year-old girl gets vein grown from her stem cells
