Scientist Discover Way To create blood from human skin
– Trials will start from 2012
The discovery is published on Nov. 7 in the journal Nature
Mick Bhatia, scientific director of McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, and his team of researchers have also shown that the conversion is direct.
scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
This means that in future when people will need blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Clinical trials could begin as soon as 2012.
The discovery was replicated several times over two years using human skin from both young and old people to prove it works for any age of person.
This research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, the Stem Cell Network and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010
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