by Adam Taylor, The Conversation Lab-grown organoids are made using stem cells. Credit: Microgen/ Shutterstock Human volunteers have received the first-ever transfusion of lab grown red blood cells in a groundbreaking scientific first. Volunteers received about 5ml-10ml of blood (around 1-2 teaspoons), which contained around 15 billion red blood cells. So far, volunteers who received the lab-grown blood...
A team of researchers in the UK have injected lab-grown blood into humans for the first time, the BBC reports, in a demonstration of potentially game-changing medical tech that could end scarcity of rare blood types. The rarest blood types go far beyond the more conventional blood type groups, such as A, B, AB, and O. Some,...
IMAGE SOURCE, NHSBT Image caption, The lab-grown blood kept in a facility in BristolBy James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial, UK researchers say. Tiny amounts – equivalent to a couple of spoonfuls – are being tested to see...
