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To avoid reliance on a living output, perhaps synthetic red blood cells would be used in such a fluid. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2
by rarefied_tomato 6y ago
To avoid reliance on a living output, perhaps synthetic red blood cells would be used in such a fluid.
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/acs-presspac-june-3-2020/synthetic-red-blood-cells-mimic-natural-ones-and-have-new-abilities.html https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/...
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoAny idea how it would interface with the placenta? Normal mammals use umbilical cords.
- rarefied_tomato 6y agoMaybe a cannula would be attached at a certain point? I think the real difficulty would be producing nutrients and mixing them into the blood. I am clearly a nonexpert. I brought this up thinking about the broader "chicken and egg" ethics & scaling problem of tissue growth. Currently the biotissue alternative meats are dependent on fetal bovine serum to get started. A vegan might object to these meats. I don't personally support these methods, and am just spitballing ideas on the tech side of the aforementioned problem.