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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. MSBNC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MSBNC? Is that some new type of proprietary cable connection?