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It turns out this survival protein
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also encourages their formation into tube-like structures
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that are starting to look like blood vessels.
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If you wait the proper period of time
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and then implant these gels into a mouse,
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so here they just made a small incision in the skin
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and slipped the gel underneath the skin and left it there,
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then these tubes developed into blood vessels.
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Now that would be cool enough on its own,
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but it does something more,
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in that this gel that's now
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filled with blood vessels does two things.