Making Synthetic Blood From Stem Cells

Posted on August 28th, 2008

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Independent scientists are hopeful that the discovery will be a success. “The problem with relying on donated blood is that there are always shortages,” Professor Alex Medvinsky, a blood stem-cell expert at the University of Edinburgh, told the Times of London. “The ability to generate red blood cells in very large numbers would be a very big thing.”