Just Another Long Day at the Blood Pharm

Blood is in short supply. We don’t donate as often as we used to, and a lot of people with tattoos and piercings can’t donate on account of hepatitis. And a lot of blood received by people in need— particularly wounded soldiers— is blood that’s been sitting on a shelf for a while.

So our friends at DARPA have handed out a grant to Arteriocyte, based in Cleveland, to ramp up their already-proven method of creating brand new blood from stem cells. ” For that, Arteriocyte is relying on a technique developed at Johns Hopkins University that uses nanofibers to mimic the three-dimensional structure of bone marrow, which manufactures blood in the body. Parent stem cells readily multiply in the matrix.”

Story here.