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From what I understand (also heard about this in a podcast recently), they take existing blood of any type and are able to modify the RH and type. So blood stil
by braunshizzle 7y ago
From what I understand (also heard about this in a podcast recently), they take existing blood of any type and are able to modify the RH and type. So blood still needs to be donated but it can be any Typs and RH as that is what can be modified to any type and RH now.
- maxerickson 7y agoI wonder if you heard about https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/type-blood-converted-universal-donor-blood-help-bacterial-enzymes https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/type-blood-converted... which is a different line of research?
- braunshizzle 7y agoYeah that was it. Reviewing the initial article posted here, it's a different line of research then I was thinking. However it looks like the success rate is still only 60% (when testing on rabbits). The Wiley article on the grant (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15427 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15427) leaves clues that it's still derived from blood at some point and not entirely artificial. Still very interesting to see that we are making progress towards creating fully artificial, non-type specific blood that anyone can use in a time of need.
- gewa 7y agoThe donored blood was only needed for the plasma base in their trial.