Video: Why don’t we have synthetic blood yet?

By Adnan Saidi On Jul 6, 2022

Why don't we have synthetic blood yet? (video) — Credit: The American Chemical Society

Millions of liters of blood are donated around the world every year, but there’s still not enough for everyone who needs it.

Chemists have been trying to make synthetic, transfusable blood for a century; in this video we dive into their odyssey and figure out how close we are to the Holy Grail of transfusion medicine:

Red blood cell units from female blood donors do not increase risk of death for transfused patients

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