Artificial Blood

[alpha2cen]

There are many researches about artificial blood.

But commercialization of that product is not easy.

If that technology is developed well, we can do blood plantation without fear of infection.

What is the problem of that investment?

How about this product?

saline solution-----------------middle product -------------artificial blood-----------blood

But the product test is not easy for human.

[ewmon]

There are universally-compatible (no blood-type matching) oxygen-transporting blood substitutes produced from non-human blood that lasts for years at room temperature, and it would seem easy enough to produce human hemoglobin artificially using recombinant DNA.

[alpha2cen]

To develop artificial bone marrow is very important for us. But its not easy. First we make bone marrow stem cell and grow that cell in the culture. Present technology can make only few hemoglobin from the bone marrow stem cell. Artificial blood is also important to make drugs.

[Ahsan Iqbal]

With great advancements in technology, everything around has changed. The way people use to get treated is also getting change slowly and steadily. There are a lot of new techniques like bone marrow transplant etc developed that can treat the untreatable diseases. A part of this advancement is the development of artificial blood. I have not heard anything about it that it has been achieved or not but at least now we have some theoretical solution of how to develop artificial blood in our minds and it will not be far when patients of diseases like thallesemia who need to replace their blood regularly will get easily treated.

[alpha2cen]

The problem is making a bone marrow stem cell. Generally cell has it's life time. No dying sell is a cancer cell. So we first make no die cancer stem cell which has no ability of metastasis. It's important step.

Making safe bone marrow stem cell is important.

[Ahsan Iqbal]

The problem is making a bone marrow stem cell. Generally cell has it's life time. No dying sell is a cancer cell. So we first make no die cancer stem cell which has no ability of metastasis. It's important step.

Making safe bone marrow stem cell is important.

 

I think like many other substance coming from mutant bacteria, the stuff required to make artificial blood can also come from the same source. All we need to do is to find the right type of microorganism for this. At least this can apply to the plasma portion of the blood which has many proteins and other substances in it. As far as the living cells like the white and red blood cells are concerned, I think the breaking point will be the formation of a stem cell that can live for a long amount of time if not infinitely.