Generate Red Blood Cells From Donated Blood

Cedric Givert from Cambridge University's Department of Hematology is one of the team behind a trial to put these lab-grown blood cells through their paces in real patients. We take stem cells that are present in anyone's blood, including donated blood, and we put them in special solutions with growth factors. Over a period of 20 days there about, they will multiply, but they will also change their nature from a stem cell to a mature red cell. And do they, to all intents and purposes, look like smell like, taste like and work like a normal red blood cell? Absolutely. They're absolutely behaved the same way as a donor-derived red blood