Scientists used donor stem cells to grow red blood cells in a laboratory. A clinical trial of these cells is underway to see if they last longer in the body compared to regular donor blood. Lab-grown ...

Efforts to develop lab-grown blood cells for blood transfusions may soon materialize. Since 2021, the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has been working on RESTORE— a project ...

Healthcare advances mean that people are living longer lives than ever. But with this progress comes a need that is often hard to fill: enough blood donations, or, in the case of countries suffering ...

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Imagine a world where every blood donation could save any life and there is no need to match blood types, and no delay in treatment. That world is no longer just science fiction. Thanks to ...

Recently, two patients in the United Kingdom received two small doses of lab-grown blood samples as part of the RESTORE trial. The RESTORE trial is a single-center, randomized, controlled, phase I ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

Laboratory-grown red blood cells have been transfused into people in a world-first clinical trial. mRNA technology and a vaccine for cancer Blood donation rules: who can donate? In a development that ...