Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

Scientists used donor stem cells to grow red blood cells in a laboratory. A clinical trial of these cells is underway to see if they last longer in the body compared to regular donor blood. Lab-grown ...

Researchers have performed the first transfusions of red blood cells grown in a lab as part of a U.K.-based clinical trial to test how long these cells can live. The team grew blood from stem cells ...

In medicine, a person’s blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person’s own stable values. Changes to ...

For the first time ever, scientists have given patients red blood cells that were grown in a lab. This feat is part of a clinical trial in England looking into the safety of the cutting-edge technique ...

For the first time ever, human patients have received transfusions of blood cells that were grown from stem cells in a lab. A clinical trial investigating the safety of the procedure is currently ...

Two people in the U.K. are the first ever to receive transfusions of lab-grown red blood cells. The pair are healthy volunteers in the "Recovery and survival of stem cell originated red cells" ...

Laboratory-grown red blood cells have been transfused into people in a world-first clinical trial. mRNA technology and a vaccine for cancer Blood donation rules: who can donate? In a development that ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

Until the 1940s, blood transfusions often went wrong because some of the main blood-group systems, such as the Rhesus factor, had yet to be discovered. This hit or miss approach to matching donors ...

Should you be terrified when a blood lab opens in your neighborhood? The New York Blood Center, long headquartered on East 67th Street, is looking to expand its four-story building and reconstruct it ...