Worrisome shortages of blood for transfusions and blood matching problems will be a thing of the past if British researchers have their way. A major three-year project is underway to see if synthetic blood can be created from IVF (in vitro fertilization) “leftover” embryos’ stem cells that would normally develop into universally accepted O-negative blood type cells. BBC
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 23 March 2009 at 18:41 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 23 March 2009.
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Tags: embryonic stem cells, O-negative blood type, synthetic blood
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