9 April 2016 (Saturday) - In Vitro Platelets

This has been on the drawing board for years.  Up till now platelets are extracted from volunteer donors. However it is now possible to get them directly from megakaryocytes grown it-vitro. There’s a minor hiccup in that the lab-grown cells produce around ten platelets each. But each one functioning normally in the bone marrow would produce up to two thousand. But in many ways that is just a trivial detail. Now that they can be grown in vitro…
I wonder who long it will be before this is rolled out for the likes of me to be using…


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