Laboratory-grown blood cells: transfusion of the future

A group of blood researchers, led by Dr Cedric Ghevaert from the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, are exploring new ways to produce red blood cells and platelets from stem cells in the laboratory.
These cells have the potential to revolutionise transfusion medicine, but what questions do the public and blood donors have for the scientists behind this pioneering work? Watch here for the answers.
Find out more about Cedric's research at www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/resea...
With thanks to Cambridge Stem Cell Institute researchers Cedric Ghevaert, Amanda Dalby, Thomas Moreau, Amanda Evans, Annett Mueller, Momal Taimoor & Moyra Lawrence.
Topics:
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Blood cells and what they do
03:07 - We need more blood cells
04:19 - Lab-grown blood cells
05:00 - How lab-grown cells work
05:40 - Normal vs lab-grown cells
06:20 - Growing blood cells
07:00 - Possible uses
07:45 - Potential benefits
08:28 - Donating blood
09:17 - Is this cloning?
10:13 - Will cells be for sale?
11:05 - Acknowledgements

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My input here is a simple theory.. a simple life has a life cycle and the life cycle is to eat to survive.. I'm probably going back to when the first cell dived and how the 2 become 1 to do so.. but everythings biography or let's say all life's program is to intake what ever it needs to survive and everything it intakes to survive also has the same program or destiny because if all it inherits which they all die because when eating it decomposes etc and then there's the nutrient for another living organism.. etc etc that cycle of something decaying for the living thing to let's say digest has been programmed to die again because of the inheritance.. I am being simple as I can but if you are creating something that has not ingested something that has an inheritance of dieing or decomposing then it should then not inherit that cycle to die.. as you can see my vocabulary is poor but creating something that has not recognised something that has decayed or died then maybe it it self should not inherit the let's call it fault in our DNA.. no scientist here but oxygen is obviously key and all trees unfortunately die and when it does then everything has that fault because everything needs oxygen to survive and what gives off oxygen dies.. any way simple and basics as I'm sure you may know but just thought I'd have a little input on things passing on that fault if ingesting something which in its DNA holds decomposing, decaying or death..

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