AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Nanofibers Seed Blood Vessels
Robert F. Service
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA--In this biotech hotbed, biological chemistry was front and center at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society from 12-16 March. A chemist reported that his team has developed a novel variety of self-assembling nanofibers that strongly promote the growth of new blood vessels both in cell cultures and preliminary animal tests.