{"id":149914,"date":"2022-11-11T01:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/using-stem-cells-to-create-an-endless-supply-of-blood"},"modified":"2022-11-11T01:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:23:43","slug":"using-stem-cells-to-create-an-endless-supply-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/using-stem-cells-to-create-an-endless-supply-of-blood","title":{"rendered":"Using stem cells to create an endless supply of blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-stem-cells-to-create-an-endless-supply-of-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> circa 2017.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For decades, scientists have sought to create red blood cells in the lab \u2013 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodjournal.org\/content\/118\/19\/5069#F1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">\u201choly grail\u201d<\/a> that some hoped could ease regional blood shortages, especially for people with rare blood types.<\/p>\n<p>But now British researchers say they have overcome a major barrier that has plagued many scientists: creating enough red cells to fill a blood bag. Their findings are published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms14750\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we kept (the cells) continually dividing for a year, we were quite excited,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/biochemistry\/people\/jan-frayne\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Frayne<\/a>, a biochemist at the University of Bristol and one of the study\u2019s lead authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three circa 2017. For decades, scientists have sought to create red blood cells in the lab \u2013 a \u201choly grail\u201d that some hoped could ease regional blood shortages, especially for people with rare blood types. But now British researchers say they have overcome a major barrier that has plagued many scientists: creating enough red cells [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}