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Article: Universal red blood cells could relieve blood bank shortages.(PRODUCTS & SERVICES: New Technology)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
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- May 1, 2007
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An international team of academic and industry scientists has come up with a feasible way of making universal red blood cells that are stripped of their blood type. The hope is that it can be developed into a viable way of relieving blood bank shortages. The study is published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. Scientists in the US about 25 years ago managed to use a coffee bean glycosidase enzyme to strip the B antigen from red blood cells. But the process proved to be impractical.
In the new study, a team of scientists led ...