Hope for mass-produced lab blood
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A method for producing red blood cells in the laboratory could one day help solve the shortage of donated blood.
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By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 19--Adding a small, almost invisible drop of cell preservative to a standard vial used for taking blood samples promises big things for Streck Inc.
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Â·Hopes for trillion-dollar bounty from breakthroughÂ· Man-made microbes could produce clean fuel
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Graduate students at the University of Toronto have boosted hopes for an effective diabetes treatment after growing insulin-producing tissue from the single cell of a mouse pancreas.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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A blood test has been developed which counts cancer cells in the advanced breast cancer patientâs blood stream and tells whether the treatment is successful.
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French scientists found a way to coax stem cells into becoming large quantities of red blood cells, according to the first description of the technique in the January journal Nature Biotechnology.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported yesterday that by using cells harvested from rats, they have grown dime-size swatches of
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Creating a bank to store a new type of  stem cell produced from donors' ordinary skin cells could help  reduce time and money for treating patients with regenerative  medicine in the future, a Japanese researcher said on  Wednesday.
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Scientists have created a synthetic drug which could offer new hope in the fight against malaria.
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American scientists have claimed that an enzyme present in almost all animal and human cells can be used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
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Researchers anticipate a major recruiting effort and construction boom as California&#39;s new stem-cell experiment gets under way, creating what amounts to an independent West Coast version of the National Institutes of Health.
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A leukemia vaccine has been successful enough in its first trials to warrant larger studies that will include hundreds of patients, researchers report.
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Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.
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Scientists say initial studies show promising results for a vaccine which could combat a common type of bacteria.
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Scientists say the results represent a new stage in synthetic biology.