In world-first trial, lab-grown blood was just injected into two people

First-ever clinical trial of laboratory-grown red blood cells being transfused into another person.

Red blood cells grown in a laboratory have now been transfused into another person in a world-first clinical trial.

The manufactured blood cells were grown from stem cells from donors. The red cells were then transfused into volunteers in the RESTORE randomised controlled clinical trial.

This is the first time in the world that red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory have been given to another person as part of a trial into blood transfusion

@ National Health Service – UK