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Rice seed yields blood protein

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Human serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.

One can't squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood — or at least blood protein — from a grain of rice. In a study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe rice seeds that can produce substantial quantities of a blood protein called human serum albumin, or HSA1.

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  1. He, Y. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. advance online publication http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109736108 (2011).

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Gravitz, L. Rice seed yields blood protein. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.621

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