Exciting breakthrough! Canadian researchers have found a way to create blood from a patch of a person’s own skin.
That means cancer patients may not have to wait for a life-saving donor match to receive a bone-marrow transplant and then face the risk of the body rejecting the blood stem cells as foreign. The treatment for blood conditions, like leukemia and anemia, could come from transfusions derived from a patient’s own skin.
“All of us are interested on the impact of science on people ... We can see the potential impact of this on patients, so that makes it particularly exciting,” said Christine Williams, director of research
for the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute. The Canadian Cancer Society helped fund Dr. Bhatia’s study.
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