�A team of researchers at Advanced Cell Technology, the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday published a study on-line in the journal Blood that describes a modern process of creating red River blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, the AP/Google.com reports. According to the research team, the red pedigree cells created through the process behaved the same way as natural cells in laboratory tests. Researchers said that in the future the process could lead to mass production of bolshie blood cells for transfusions (Ritter, AP/Google.com, 8/20).
However, some experts said that certain improvements are needful before the red roue cells created through the process could become a "realistic alternative" to cells provided by donors, the Los Angeles Times reports (Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 8/20). Robert Lanza, scientific director for ACT, aforesaid that researchers hope to modify the process to create red blood cells from pluripotent stem cells, which ar made through skin cells. Current federal policy does not let federal funding for embryotic stem cell research on cell lines created on or earlier Aug. 9, 2001, and Lanza said that researchers have had problems with funding (Fox, Reuters, 8/19).
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