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Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:21:58 UTC No. 16252046
Why don't we have lab grown blood yet? Why is literally nobody working on this?
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:12:53 UTC No. 16252082
>>16252060
It's a slow board.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:15:40 UTC No. 16252086
>>16252060
It's a low quality thread. Synthetic blood already exists and is constantly being improved upon. It's just not in widespread use because it still needs quite a bit of improvement for most use cases.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:25:24 UTC No. 16252092
Free blood is better/cheaper
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:37:58 UTC No. 16252102
For a number of reasons, but chiefly among them is that synthetic blood has to be actual cells, and not just some liquid you inject into people. Cell growth is bottlenecked by all the normal factors. Generally though, if you're taking the time to produce synthetic bone marrow it's easier/cheaper to just take blood donations, since blood cells don't divide.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:14:20 UTC No. 16252867
What's that disgusting black thing inside her mouth
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:22:33 UTC No. 16254719
>>16252046
Powdered blood is a thing. Not sure what they replace the water with through RO, but they can rehydrate it
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:27:30 UTC No. 16254887
>>16252102
can't we just suspend a cadaver's bone marrow in a tube indefinitely?
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:54:23 UTC No. 16254912
>>16254887
I know of no way that's possible, outside of transplanting the bone marrow into a new person.