Lymphatic system

In the graphic summary, from the bottom left corner and clockwise: muscle tissue containing mature cells and blood networks; adipose tissue containing blood vessel and lymph networks; printing of these scaffolds; and immediate feeding of the scaffold by the "host" tissue. Courtesy of Prof. Shulamit Levenberg's laboratory

A first-of-its-kind 3D implant developed at the Technion may dramatically improve treatment of tissue loss

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Researchers at the Technion have developed an engineered scaffold containing muscle and fat tissue, a hierarchical blood vessel network, and a lymphatic network, and experiments in rats demonstrated faster and more efficient attachment of the graft to the damaged organ.
Five-day-old zebrafish embryos under a microscope: the normal embryo (top) and the transgenic embryo (bottom) carrying the gene with the disease-causing mutation. It can be seen that in the transgenic embryo the main lymphatic vessel is abnormally enlarged

From the clinic to the aquarium: New zebrafish-based drugs for a rare lymphatic disease

A unique collaboration between the Weizmann Institute of Science and Sheba Medical Center led to the discovery of two potential drugs for a life-threatening disease of the lymphatic system.
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