Xenerate AB
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
By marrying gene therapy with medical device technology, Sweden's Xenerate AB believes it can make implantable vascular devices--artificial grafts and stents--capable of endothelialization, thus improving their biocompatibility and reducing the incidence of intimal hyperplasia, restenosis and other adverse effects.
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