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>a specially designed liquid round the brain, which contained a synthetic blood to carry oxygen and drugs to slow or reverse the death of brain cells. I had no
by equalunique 7y ago
>a specially designed liquid round the brain, which contained a synthetic blood to carry oxygen and drugs to slow or reverse the death of brain cells.
I had no idea humanity achieved synthetic blood. This is from the study:
>a haemoglobin-based, acellular, non-coagulative, echogenic, and cytoprotective perfusate that promotes recovery from anoxia
Am I the only one excited by what viable synthetic blood might mean for blood banks?
Study is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1
- Balgair 7y agoYou can buy Artificial cerebro-spinal fluid from places like this: https://www.tocris.com/products/acsf_3525 https://www.tocris.com/products/acsf_3525 Or you can make it yourself per: http://www.alzet.com/products/guide_to_use/cfs_preparation.html http://www.alzet.com/products/guide_to_use/cfs_preparation.h... Artificial blood is way trickier, but there are a lot of advancements being made. It's really exciting!
- equalunique 7y agoThank you. These links are illuminating.
- contravariant 7y agoI reckon artificial blood is a lot easier in the absence of an immune system.
- Skunkleton 7y agoIt probably helps that it doesn't need to last more than a few hours too.
- dguest 7y agoDon't get your hopes up. I worked in a neurology lab where they used something similar years ago. You could keep a pig / rat brain running for a few hours like this, but it would start to fall apart in other ways pretty fast.
- sebazzz 7y agoIs this study then representative with this synthetic blood?