Method for manufacturing patient-specific human platelets

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Skin cells from humans can be revamped into pro-clotting cells called platelets, according to a new study. Patients with diseases causing thrombocytopenia -- platelet deficiency -- often require repeated transfusions with platelets obtained from healthy donors.

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