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goosebattle t1_ivfixgb wrote

Reply to comment by banjaxedW in Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial by TailsxCream4Eva

Can't shorten, but ELI5:

Nice scientists grew a lot of blood out of a little bit of blood. They gave this blood to people who don't have enough blood. The scientists are waiting to see if the blood they grew will help the people they gave it to.

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Rdizzlefohshizzle t1_ivfjwx0 wrote

>Nice scientists grew a lot of blood out of a little bit of blood.

I'd like to argue it's more like: nice scientists grew special blood from normal blood.

It's unclear how much blood they could produce from the blood they recieved. The beauty of it is that it is blood that is supposed to be more easily accepted in patients with high requirements for a blood transfusion.

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