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Researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine have successfully grown arteries that could be used for people who need bypass surgery. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Christopher Counter, an assistant professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at the Duke University Medical Center and a cancer biologist at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, is on the team that created functional human arteries in the lab.Duke University Medical Center

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Laura Niklason, a practicing physician and bioengineering researcher at Duke University Medical School, helped create functional human arteries in the lab.

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Telomeres are bundles of DNA that cap each end of chromosomes. As cells get older and divide more, telomeres get shorter. An enzyme called telomerase regulates telomeres and cell division. Cancer tumors have too much teolomerase, while aging cells don't have enough. Here, a cell with mutant telomerase attempts to divide.

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