Blood from Skin Cells
January 31, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
It doesn’t take much of a snowstorm for hospital blood supplies to run low, though a national network exists to shuttle units of blood from one place to another. But, imagine, if hospitals could “grow” their own blood. Regenerative medicine scientists in Singapore may have found a way to do that—producing whole blood with immune cells from skin cells. Thus far they have only done this in lab mice, but that goes a long way toward proof of principle. MORE
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