Scientists on lifesaving quest to make blood in the lab

Scientists around the world are in a battle to develop the tastiest artificial beef, pork, coffee and milk. But in Cambridge an academic is trying to reproduce a product even more vital: blood.

Cedric Ghevaert is a consultant haematologist and leader of a team that is trying to create platelets in the laboratory. He believes that we may be on the cusp of a revolution in how patients receive emergency supplies of blood.