Scientists used donor stem cells to grow red blood cells in a laboratory. A clinical trial of these cells is underway to see if they last longer in the body compared to regular donor blood. Lab-grown ...

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A team of researchers in the UK have injected lab-grown blood into humans for the first time, the BBC reports, in a demonstration of potentially game-changing medical tech that could end scarcity of ...

Researchers have performed the first transfusions of red blood cells grown in a lab as part of a U.K.-based clinical trial to test how long these cells can live. The team grew blood from stem cells ...

Scientists have transfused lab-made red blood cells into a human volunteer in a world-first trial that experts say has major potential for people with hard-to-match blood types or conditions such as ...

Blood grown in a laboratory has been transfused into humans for the first time in a landmark clinical trial. Two patients in the U.K. have so far received tiny doses of the lab-grown blood as part of ...

Ask Briley McClung about blood tests, tissue samples and bodily fluids and she gets a smile on her face, a light in her eyes and exhibits an infectious sense of confidence. The 19-year-old ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

For the first time, doctors changed the blood type of human lungs — an experimental step toward creating universal organs that could be transplanted into any patient, regardless of blood type. An ...

Until the 1940s, blood transfusions often went wrong because some of the main blood-group systems, such as the Rhesus factor, had yet to be discovered. This hit or miss approach to matching donors ...