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Lab-Grown Blood: What Is It, and How Could It Be Useful?
Sometimes a person may have a blood disorder causing their blood to not act as it should. One of these disorders is sickle cell disease, which affects the body’s red blood cells. Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disease in the United States, with a high prevalence in people of African descent.
There are different types of blood and some are rarer than others. People can have rare blood types that make transfusion difficult if they are in an accident or need surgery. For example, AB negative is the rarest blood type with only 1% of the general population having it.
To help combat these issues, a team of researchers led by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) unit recently launched the first clinical trial to ever transfuse laboratory-grown red blood cells into a live human.
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