{"id":241243,"date":"2026-07-21T00:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-find-a-more-precise-way-to-grow-artificial-blood-vessels-using-magnets"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:03:54","slug":"scientists-find-a-more-precise-way-to-grow-artificial-blood-vessels-using-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-find-a-more-precise-way-to-grow-artificial-blood-vessels-using-magnets","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find a More Precise Way to Grow Artificial Blood Vessels, Using Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KAaS0J18TfU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Science may one day give us a way to replace damaged and diseased parts of the body with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mouse-embryo-complete-with-a-beating-heart-is-growing-entirely-in-petri-dish\">artificial replacements<\/a> \u2013 but reproducing organs and tissues in the lab isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s especially true for networks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/fake-blood-vessels-mean-lab-grown-chicken-can-now-be-nugget-sized\">of blood vessels<\/a>, which at the level of fine, thread-like capillaries are microscopic \u2013 these capillaries can be as small as 0.005 millimeters (34 times thinner than a human hair), and only let blood cells through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blood.co.uk\/news-and-campaigns\/the-donor\/latest-stories\/functions-of-blood-transport-around-the-body\/\">in single file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by a team from MIT have now published a study in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2532667123\"><em>PNAS<\/em><\/a> that details a way of engineering blood vessels in the lab with significantly greater precision than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science may one day give us a way to replace damaged and diseased parts of the body with artificial replacements \u2013 but reproducing organs and tissues in the lab isn\u2019t easy. That\u2019s especially true for networks of blood vessels, which at the level of fine, thread-like capillaries are microscopic \u2013 these capillaries can be as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}