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Platelets play a vital role in blood clotting, essential if someone needs a blood transfusion. At the moment, doctors are totally dependent on blood donations, but now scientists in Britain say they've made a major breakthrough in creating blood platelets in a laboratory. Dr Cedric Ghevaert, a consultant haemotologist from Cambridge University, was involved in the research.

(Photo: Bags of donated red blood cells hang in a blood donation centre, Credit: Science Photo Library)