Artificial blood in the works

12.03.09 / The frontiers of medicine / Author: Kevster

For more than a decade now, researchers across the globe have been engaged in a race to create the first ever artificial blood. As you may already know, blood is one of the most precious things in the world- and we’re just in short supply everyday.

Hopefully with the discovery of a synthetic protein that would hold together the new artificial blood, the researchers just might find a way to lower the costs of production and help out the rest of the planet with the life-saving fluid. If not, we’re sure that the large pharmaceuticals will be after it like wolves on fresh meat.