UK’s innovation agency backs Plasticell to produce red blood cell substitute from pluripotent stem cells
Plasticell, a developer of cell therapies including hematopoietic cell replacement therapies, today announced it has secured Biomedical Catalyst funding of over 920,000 GBP from Innovate UK to create a safe, effective red blood cell substitute for human clinical transfusion, in collaboration with stem cell scientists at the University of Edinburgh. Over 90 million blood transfusions are carried out worldwide each [...]