Artificial blood will be made in plants.

Once about such things told in science fiction. A man whose bones are printed on a printer, and the blood is made in a factory. But now it is almost a reality. The developers of 3D printers have learned how to print individual organs , and now scientists are ready to produce any amount of artificial blood.

Professor Marc Turner (Marc Turner) said that his group was able to start production of blood cells of the first group from iPS cells, i.e. stem cells derived from human organs.

“Although similar scientific research is conducted around the world, for the first time we were able to produce blood of suitable quality and corresponding safety standards for introduction into the human body,” said the professor.
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Patient testing will be completed at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017. Most likely, they will be attended by patients suffering from thalassemia, hemorrhage disorder, in need of constant transfusions.

If everything goes well, then medical institutions will have a new source of blood for transfusion. In many third world countries, there is still a problem with a sufficient amount of donated blood. But even if there is no such problem, artificial blood will be cheaper and more qualitative than donor blood, without harmful impurities, so that everyone will benefit from the new technology.