Science and technology have helped medical science tackle a lot of problems and unlock a number of barriers. We have seen artificial organs in action and we have witnessed artificial hearts saving lives of patients. Naturally, the next step is to come up with blood that is synthetic. Although it has been produced before but this time the aim is to come up with blood that can be used for blood transfusion. This would greatly help humanity because many patients suffer because the right blood type is not available at the right time at the right place. The first clinical test on humans will be carried out in late 2016 or early 2017. This research will also facilitate the production of blood on a larger scale which will eventually help hospitals in coping up with the blood shortage. The only reservation is the fact that this process must be insanely efficient and speedy since only in US, transfusions involve 14 million units of blood and one unit of blood contains a trillion of red blood cells. wonderfulengineering/scientists-create-artificial-blood-fit-for-transfusion-using-stem-cells/
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:01:02 +0000
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