Scientists produce white and red blood cells from artificial bone marrow

3 January 2009

Researchers at University of Michigan, department of Biomedical Engineering and Material Science have created red and white blood cells from artificial bone marrow, which will lead to continuous blood supply for transfusion.

According to the researcher, Nicholas Kotov, professor at University of Michigan, the substance was grown on a 3-D scaffold, however like other 3-D biomedical scaffolds, the researcher didn’t implant marrow in the body. Actually it was designed for functioning in a test tube and the researchers were able to produce first artificial bone marrow.

The artificial bone marrow was found to have two important essential functions and it can produce white and red blood cells as well as it can replicate stem cells. The B cells especially white blood cells play an important role in fighting diseases and stem cells are essential for producing many other types of cells.

Many drugs especially chemotherapy drugs can significantly hinder bone marrow functions and therefore reduce the ability of body to fight against infections and diseases. The artificial bone marrow can provide an opportunity to test the drug and find out the affect of drug on efficiency of bone marrow and therefore it will significantly reduce the drug trial on humans and consequently reduce the severe side effects during trial.

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