Artificial blood to be tested on humans to create human-like drones. (life as we know it will be destroyed!)
Artificial blood to be tested on humans – and could be used in transfusions by 2035
- A team at the University of Edinburgh is undertaking a £5 million project
- The research has been looking at making red blood cells from stem cells
- They have now reached an efficiency of almost 50 per cent
- In 2016 they will trial their artificial blood in 3 patients with blood disorders
- If successful, artificial blood could replace donated blood in 20 years
Artificially created blood could one day replace donations as the norm for blood transfusions.
That’s according to researchers at the University of Edinburgh who have been using stem cells to create red blood cells.
And in 2016 they are planning to conduct a groundbreaking trial that, for the first time, will test artificial blood made from stem cells in patients.
The £5 million project is being pioneered by the University of Edinburgh and comes after years of research into growing red blood cells.
The process involves using adult skin or blood cells that have been genetically modified into stem cells, known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.
