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Human Blood Cells Grown

Posted by michael on from the vampires-rejoice dept.

exceed writes: "MSNBC has an interesting article on researchers that have developed the first human blood cells by growing embryonic stem cells in a culture containing mouse tissue which encouraged development of blood cells. The result, they report, was cell colonies that 'appear identical to those produced from human bone marrow cells.' Similar work has been done like this with mice, but this is the first time human blood cells have been developed from embryonic stem cells."

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  1. I can see the paranoid rallying cry now by rknop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Evil Stem Cell Researchers Work to Stop Red Cross Blood Drives!!

    ...followed by a long set of statistics about how many lives blood drives have saved and about how awful it will be if they stop happening, or even become less common.

    -Rob