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STEM Connection: Cardiac Stent

transform | transfawrm |A cardiac stent opens blocked arteries. It needs to travel through a small diameter tube to the blockage. A prototype developed at the University of Oxford is folded using an origami based pattern. Once in position, the stent transforms, inflating to open the blocked artery.