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By building a 'blood vessel on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mit-engineers-find-a-precise-way-to-grow-artificial-blood-vessels-aqlel28ao og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AQlEL28Ao.png og:image:alt: MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT engineers have developed a method to precisely control the growth of artificial blood vessels using mechanical stimulation. By building a 'blood vessel on a chip' with a central artery made from human endothelial cells embedded in a magnet-infused gel, they discovered that repeatedly stretching the artery stimulates capillary sprouting. The direction and degree of stretching determines the orientation and quantity of new vessels. Further investigation revealed that the PIEZO1 ion channel gene acts as a key mediator of this mechanically-induced growth. When PIEZO1 was suppressed via gene editing, significantly fewer vessels sprouted even under mechanical stimulation. The technique could enable reproducible fabrication of vascularized artificial tissues and organs for implantation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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