Three Steps to a Better World – Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfq7Gp_BsUE

One percent of newborns are born with congenital heart defects, whose repair usually requires multiple surgeries. That's because the synthetic materials used in the repair of the defects fail as a result of calcification, infection, or thrombosis, and are not capable of growing with the child. Andrew Schiff (ENG'12) would like to make a better patch, one made of Mesenchymal Stem Cells MSCs (MSCs) and Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVECs) taken from the child

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Three Steps to a Better World - Video