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Does anyone know if this has the same "rejuvenating effects" that young blood has on older patients?
Could you link to something to provide context to your language? I've never heard of young blood -> older patient rejuvination, or how such clinical trials could be done safely. A pint of blood from a child is so much...
Historically, there have been many efforts in the past to make artificial blood and IIRC they didn't turn out well for the patients. It's a bit like the the body with vitamins. At first they thought vitamins were all you needed - then they started discovering micro-nutrients. Blood is pretty complex - does this include just the highest-order bits of blood, or does it include everything that blood has?
Historically, there have been many efforts in the past to make artificial blood and IIRC they didn't turn out well for the patients. It's a bit like the the body with vitamins. At first they thought vitamins were all you needed - then they started discovering micro-nutrients. Blood is pretty complex - does this include just the highest-order bits of blood, or does it include everything that blood has?
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Uuuh no. Real blood unfortunately does more than transport oxygen. So "hook them up to the tank" isn't a solution, and isn't a problem only in a surgeon's mind.
What other functions of real blood do you have in mind, that this doesn't at least have the potential to do well for a short period of time in emergencies?
And before you tell me the potential is there, please realize that we currently have only a very partial understanding of how that works, and it would certainly require at least two decades of science to get right.
>Platelets can be stored for four days if shaken to prevent solidification, while red blood cells can be kept for 20 days at low temperatures. I didn't know that the shelf life of blood is that short. Does this mean it is possible that some portion of blood collected from "blood donation programs" goes waste? Because, in our country (Nepal), dozens of such programs are conducted by the Red Cross all around the countr…
A doctor in charge of a blood extraction campaign explained to me that this is exactly the reason why there is a constant high demand of blood donors. Between hospitals there are exchanges daily of blood (you might have a certain blood type that another hospital needs right now), but a lot of blood does get wasted, because of the short times it has. They also separate blood in different kinds (platelets I think it wa…
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Could you link to something to provide context to your language? I've never heard of young blood -> older patient rejuvination, or how such clinical trials could be done safely. A pint of blood from a child is so much...
There was also a bit in Silicon Valley about how rich old entrepreneurs are hiring young 20 yr old 'blood boys' to transfuse them blood at will. I wonder how true it is.
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What other functions of real blood do you have in mind, that this doesn't at least have the potential to do well for a short period of time in emergencies?
Well, what about immune function? It's pretty interesting to have one when and after you're bleeding out... And before you tell me the potential is there, please realize that we currently have only a very partial understanding of how that works, and it would certainly require at least two decades of science to get right.