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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