Scientists break blood barrier
Thursday, 13 September, 2001
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin, have coaxed human embryonic stem cells into becoming blood cells, an advance that may eventually offer a safe and inexhaustible source of blood for transfusions and treatments for many blood diseases.
Researchers guided stem cells into blood cells by surrounding them with chemical cues and nutrients that signalled the immature cells to morph into every type of regular blood cell - red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
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