GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — East Carolina University’s clinical laboratory science students received a new device that automates blood type identification. The instrument, known as the Ortho-Clinical ...

Laboratory-grown red blood cells have been transfused into a person in a world-first clinical trial. A couple of spoonfuls ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For the first time, doctors changed the blood type of human lungs — an experimental step toward creating universal organs that could be ...

The need to first zero in on a blood group can delay blood transfusions in emergency situations, and this in turn can prove fatal. Thus, to speed up the process, a team of scientists has developed a ...

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 ...

In a development that “could significantly improve treatment for people with blood disorders and rare blood types”, small amounts of lab-grown red blood cells were tested to see how they perform ...

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 ...

Knowing your blood type is crucial medical information, but unless you've given blood before you might not be sure what yours is. I realized this when I was asked for mine while filling out paperwork ...