Ever worried what would happen if we ran out of blood in hospitals? Fear no more! Because the first patient ever has been given lab-grown blood — and survived. More »
Human Serum Albumin (HSA) is a protein commonly used in vaccines and often administered for serious burn injuries and liver disease and commonly in short supply due to a lack of donors. That’s why researchers from Wuhan University have figured out how to grow it–not in people, but in rice. More »
The problem with blood is that we never have enough. Research has been ongoing into creating a synthetic blood replacement but, try as we might, it’s not the easiest thing to produce. A team in Scotland from Edinburgh University decided to work with, rather than against, nature, and have come up with a way to create artificial blood from human bone marrow. More »
