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Cell culture flasks in the incubator during manufacture of red blood cells

First ever clinical trial of lab-grown red blood cell transfusion

07 Nov 2022

Cambridge researchers are taking part in the world’s first clinical trial of red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory for transfusion...

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Cambridge researchers change donor kidney blood type

15 Aug 2022

Researchers have been able to alter the blood type of deceased donor kidneys using “molecular scissors”.

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Human Colon Cancer Cells

Blood test to monitor cancer up to ten times more sensitive than current methods

17 Jun 2020

A new method of analysing cancer patients’ blood for evidence of the disease could be up to ten times more sensitive than previous methods according...

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Red blood cells

Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood

06 Jun 2018

An international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Cambridge and MSD has created the first detailed genetic map of human...

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Detail from William Harvey's De motu cordis (experiment confirming direction of blood flow)

Blood and bodies: the messy meanings of a life-giving substance

03 May 2018

A collection of essays explores understandings of a vital bodily fluid in the period 1400-1700. Its contributors offer insight into both theory and...

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A BLUEPRINT for blood cells: Cambridge researchers play leading role in major release of epigenetic studies

17 Nov 2016

Cambridge researchers have played a leading role in several studies released today looking at how variation in and potentially heritable changes to...

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Potential new treatment for haemophilia developed by Cambridge researchers

27 Oct 2016

A new treatment that might one day help all patients with haemophilia, including those that become resistant to existing therapies, has been...

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abstract blood cells

Anatomy of a decision: mapping early development

06 Jul 2016

In the first genome-scale experiment of its kind, researchers have gained new insights into how a mouse embryo first begins to transform from a ball...

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Blood transfusion bags

Reducing number of infectious malaria parasites in donated blood could help prevent transmission during transfusion

21 Apr 2016

A technique for reducing the number of infectious malaria parasites in whole blood could significantly reduce the number of cases of transmission of...

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A Surprising New Path to Tumor Development

New microscopic imaging technology reveals origins of leukaemia

19 Oct 2015

Scientists at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular...

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Red blood cells (illustration)

Order matters: sequence of genetic mutations determines how cancer behaves

11 Feb 2015

The order in which genetic mutations are acquired determines how an individual cancer behaves, according to research from the University of Cambridge...

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University of Cambridge to establish two new Blood and Transplant Research Units

14 Nov 2014

The University of Cambridge has received £7.9 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to fund Blood and Transplant Research...

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