After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Scientists have taken a decisive step toward ending one of transplant medicine’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the need to match donor organs to a recipient’s blood type. By chemically reengineering a ...

Share on Pinterest Could lab-grown blood fill an important gap in blood availability? Image credit: Frank Molter/picture alliance via Getty Images. Blood plays a vital role in the health of the body, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Efforts to develop lab-grown blood cells for blood transfusions may soon materialize. Since 2021, the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has been working on RESTORE— a project ...

A clinical trial is underway now, and it centers on lab-grown blood that is injected into two people in the United Kingdom, with its research looking into how it would be accepted by the body and its ...

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 ...

This article was reviewed by Felix Gussone, MD. Key Takeaways: Preparing properly for lab tests helps ensure your results are accurate and reliable. Some tests — ...

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 ...