Pursuit All sections Home We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels Cardiovascular disease is a global killer. Now researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive and scalable method for engineering blood vessels from natural tissue By Associate Professor Daniel Heath, Professor Andrea O’Connor and Hazem Alkazemi, University of Melbourne Share selection to: Blood vessels keep us alive. They are the highways that transport oxygen-rich blood and nutrients to all corners of our body – feeding our tissue and organs – while simultaneously removing toxic waste products. Blood vessel disease and dysfunction can result in life-threatening situations like heart attack , stroke and aneurysm . Blood vessel failures are a major reason why cardiovascular disease is the number one killer globally . Blood vessel failures are a major reason why cardiovascular disease is the number one killer globally....