The startup aiming to make blood donations a thing of the past
Israel 21C 30.04.2022
If RedC Biotech is successful, hospitals will no longer depend on blood donations but will be able to buy blood on demand as a pharmaceutical product.
A horrendous mass casualty event results in dozens of people injured. Many need blood transfusions. The local blood banks can’t cope with the sudden demand. Even worse, some of the victims have rare blood types that are not well represented in the blood bank’s inventory.
Israeli startup RedC Biotech has a radical solution: generating an unlimited supply of universal red blood cells from a single donation of human stem cells.
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