Researchers Create Plastic Blood

Discussion in 'Science, Technology & Car Chat' started by fearless_fx, May 12, 2007.

  1. fearless_fx

    fearless_fx Eugooglizer

    pretty interesting stuff... although i am curious as to the degree of longevity the blood will have. Considering the bloodstream also transports waste through the body and has to go through the complicated renal system, i wonder if whether this synthetic blood wouldn't eventually begin to break down.

    Also apparently all blood substitutes use polyethylene gycols which can migrate into lipids and have toxic effects. And the immune response to long term usage of a blood substitute hasn't really been explored. There is also the fact that once you get this stuff in your system it will mix with your normal blood and to my knowledge there would be no way to get it out... which could become a pretty big problem. but meh, with enough lab trials and clinical tests they will probably develop a pretty solid product -rockon yay for science.
     
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  2. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    Well... I guess the clinical trials will be vigourous to say the least. But it is a difficult position to choose possibly tainted blood (from donors) vs. possibly toxic blood (synthetic and likely to be toxic in long run)
     
  3. plastic blood... they trying to make a plastic magneto or wolverine? lol
     
  4. fearless_fx

    fearless_fx Eugooglizer

    there is already a DC superhero called plastic man lol

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  5. Knoctur_nal

    Knoctur_nal |Force 10 from Navarone|

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    plastic blood..cmon..
     
  6. oh man.. i forgot about plastic man lol

    the equivalent to the rubberman from fantastic 4 lol
     
  7. dim8sum

    dim8sum ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪....

    be a good thing if they can get it to work, im sure they will make it completely safe before using it properly
     
  8. wind2000

    wind2000 Self Schemata

    Before its actually available, it will be several decades.
     
  9. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    @dim8sum: most pharmaseutical products we know are not "completely safe" since there is little guarantee of chemicals being "completely safe" espeically with prolonged usage.

    But it will definitely be reasonably safe by the time it is pushed into the market for commercial use.