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 ...

For the first time ever, scientists have given patients red blood cells that were grown in a lab. This feat is part of a clinical trial in England looking into the safety of the cutting-edge technique ...

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 ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to ...

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 ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In a small, windowless lab room, the temperature reads a ...