Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Multipotent Vascular Progenitors of the Mesothelium Lineage Have Utility in Tissue Engineering and Repair (Cell Reports)

Colunga et al. describe a multipotent vascular progenitor cell that contributes to neovascularization of damaged tissue and that efficiently populates vascular scaffolds and self-assembles into functional vessels. These findings open up new opportunities for the vascularization of diseased and damaged tissue and for surgical vessel replacement.