- 17 MAY 2017 • 6:00PM
- Sarah Knapton, science editor
Blood donors may no longer be needed in the future after scientists showed it was possible to create blood from stem cells.
The 20 year project could pave the way for an unlimited number of blood and immune cells for transplants, simply by reprogramming a patient’s own skin cells.
The research, reported in the journal Nature, holds out enormous promise for developing personalised treatments for blood disorders, drug-screening and reducing shortages of donated blood.
Dr Ryohichi Sugimura, of Boston Children's Hospital, said: "This gives us the potential to have a limitless supply of blood stem cells and blood by taking cells from universal donors. This could potentially augment the blood supply for patients who need transfusions.
“This step opens up an opportunity to take cells from patients with genetic blood disorders, use gene editing to correct their genetic defect and make functional blood cells.”
For patients receiving treatment for cancer, blood disorders, after accidents or during surgery, or new mums who lose blood in childbirth, blood is an absolutely essential part of healthcare.
But NHS Blood and Transplant - the service which collects, tests and processes blood for hospitals across England -says that while hospitals have the blood needed to treat patients there is a need for more new donors.
Is this the end of blood donation? Scientists close to unlimited supply from stem cells
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DesirousOfChange
JW HQ could easily make this a "conscience matter" and that would give them a way out of their f*cked up policy on transfusions.
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TheWonderofYou
This may be a similar or competitive research on red blood cells from stem cells
http://www.haematologica.org/content/early/2014/10/14/haematol.2014.108068
Isabel Dorn, Katharina Klich, Marcos J. Arauzo-Bravo, Martina Radstaak, Simon Santourlidis,
Foued Ghanjati, Teja F. Radke, Olympia E. Psathaki, Gunnar Hargus, Jan Kramer, Martin Einhaus,
Jeong B. Kim, Gesine Koegler, Peter Wernet, Hans R. Schöler, Peter Schlenke, Holm Zaehres
Peter Schlenke /Graz and Isabel Dorn
Univ. Dr. Peter Schlenke, Member of the Board of the University Clinic for Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Graz, has recently been awarded a prize at the 48th anniversary of the German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, in recognition of his outstanding and innovative research in the field of immunohematology and related disciplines Basel with the Philip Levine Award. The prize of EUR 10,000.00 is awarded for two years to the memory of Philip Levine, an American immunologist and hematologist, and an outstanding pioneer of blood serum serology. https://www.medunigraz.at/neues/detail/news/blut-grazer-spitzenforschung/
Artificial blood substitute in the center of Graz's research
For a long time, the committed scientist, who has just moved from Germany to Austria last year, and his team work on the artificial generation of red blood cells (erythrocytes) from adult, fetal and so-called inducible pluripotent stem cells. This basic-oriented research is of interest not only for a possible "artificial" blood substitute, but also serves for a better understanding of non-malignant diseases of the red blood cells (eg, sickle kinaemia, thalassemia)
Peter Schlenke and his life partner Isabel Dorn, who wants to "get going" in spring 2016 in Graz, are researching the pathophysiological connections between the haemolytic-gland and the human body, together with scientists from the Institute for Hygiene at the University of Münster (Prof. Helge Karch, Prof. Johannes Müthing) Uraemic syndrome, a feared complication of infection with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, the shigatoxin of which may inhibit the formation of red blood cells (erythropoiesis).http://www.haematologica.org/content/early/2014/10/14/haematol.2014.108068
https://www.medunigraz.at/neues/detail/news/stammzellforschung-rote-blutkoerperchen-aus-dem-labor/
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darkspilver
FYI The Daily Telegraph's article appears to be based on the following three articles in the magazine Nature which describes itself as the "international weekly journal of science."
Lab-grown blood stem cells produced at last
Two research teams cook up recipe to make long-sought cells in mice and people.
https://www.nature.com/news/lab-grown-blood-stem-cells-produced-at-last-1.22000#/b1
Haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from human pluripotent stem cells
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature22370.html
Conversion of adult endothelium to immunocompetent haematopoietic stem cells
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Lee Elder
Wonderful news for humanity. Would require some "new light" from the Watchtower to be acceptable to JWs. Much needed "new light".
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smiddy
While this is a great breakthrough that could benefit JW`s as patients needing blood ,especially children who are influenced by their parents and are indoctrinated..
The reality and benefits of this "breakthrough" could still be many years away maybe even a decade or two.
The media often highlights the potential of breakthroughs in medical science but omits how long its going to be before the general public will recieve the expected benefits.
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AFRIKANMAN
Its evidence of Jehovah caring for his people ! .............................................................................................
He has by his HS empowered the worldly ..soon to be annihilated at Armageddon ...doctors to use their expertise gained by following a course of higher education and hours of hard sweat and tears to come up with an exclusive solution just for the Dubs ! And then the medics will get trashed !