Young blood as an anti-aging remedy for the rich? Why do I imagine it being sipped from golden goblets in darkened castle halls?
Questionable “Young Blood” Transfusions Offered in U.S. As Anti-Aging Remedy
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#12If it's found to work well, it will be great for the young people struggling with money. The bar to entry of such a business is very low - you just have to test the blood donors for disease, which can be outsourced to numerous labs.
Maybe there is a startup opportunity to sell spare kidneys, and even lungs and liver-halfs too! Maybe even a cash-for-corpses business, we need to get rid of these ridiculous self-serving medical regulations. DISRUPT!
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#13Look at the bright side: we might discover new and exciting hepatotropic viruses and other cool transfusion-related pathogens!
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#16This popular science piece is characteristic of a prevalent and hostile view of the growing practice of patient-funded clinical trials. In this model the patient pays a sizable portion of the costs, which certainly makes it a lot easier to gather larger amounts of data, as the trial organizers don't have to seek the funding themselves. On the other hand, it tends to rule out the ability to carry out a blind trial in…
I wonder if you could run a paid study with a proper control group. Perhaps have everyone pay to participate, administer the treatment to half of them, and at the end of the study refund some amount of money (all? all + interest?) to the ones who received a placebo. That way they've only donated their time.
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#17If it's found to work well, it will be great for the young people struggling with money. The bar to entry of such a business is very low - you just have to test the blood donors for disease, which can be outsourced to numerous labs.
Maybe there is a startup opportunity to sell spare kidneys, and even lungs and liver-halfs too! Maybe even a cash-for-corpses business, we need to get rid of these ridiculous self-serving medical regulations. DISRUPT!
Blood is renewable, and is already a buyable/sellable item. Discovering a new use for it would simply boost demand.
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#18If it's found to work well, it will be great for the young people struggling with money. The bar to entry of such a business is very low - you just have to test the blood donors for disease, which can be outsourced to numerous labs.
Maybe there is a startup opportunity to sell spare kidneys, and even lungs and liver-halfs too! Maybe even a cash-for-corpses business, we need to get rid of these ridiculous self-serving medical regulations. DISRUPT!
When you can grow back your kidneys, lungs, and livers, this will be a sensible extension of the idea.
I initially wanted to make this comment sarcastically, but really, if we become capable of regrowing organs within your body you could legitimately make a business case for it.
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#19If it's found to work well, it will be great for the young people struggling with money. The bar to entry of such a business is very low - you just have to test the blood donors for disease, which can be outsourced to numerous labs.
Maybe there is a startup opportunity to sell spare kidneys, and even lungs and liver-halfs too! Maybe even a cash-for-corpses business, we need to get rid of these ridiculous self-serving medical regulations. DISRUPT!
If we could legally sell bone marrow (which hurts to donate, but regenerates), a lot fewer people would die.
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#20This sounds like a set-up for a horror movie.
"Oh, yes... Paleblood. Well, you've come to the right place."