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RED blood cells generated in a lab have been successfully injected into a human volunteer for the first time. This is a vital step towards a future in which all the blood we need for transfusions can be made in the lab, so that blood donors are no longer essential.
at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, and his colleagues extracted what are called haematopoietic stem cells from a volunteer’s bone marrow. These cells were encouraged to grow into cultured red blood cells using a cocktail of growth factors.…
