Saturday 22 May 2010

Synthetic Life: What We Reallly Want is Blood

This synthetic life stuff is all very clever, but what the bio-chemical geniuses of the planet should really be working on, night and day, without respite, is synthetic blood.

How, for pity's sake, has this breakthrough eluded us for so long ??

Blood ... and treasure

ND

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Because of blood banks we have a substitute already.

But there are synthetic products available and more are under production. But their cost is far higher than than running blood banks.

Laban said...

It's not really 'synthetic life'. They took a fairly simple genome and built a copy from scratch in the lab. A great feat of synthesis but ...

when someone sits down at a computer, puts together a design for a simple organism, then builds it, and it 'works' - that'll be synthetic life.

Anonymous said...

Laban: " It's not really 'synthetic life'."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZ-GjSaqgo&feature=player_embedded

OK, how about synthetic life forms?/

Nick Drew said...

anon(1) - what I mean is something that (a) is a full blood-substitute and (b) can be mass-produced

blood banks can't possibly be satisfactory in the long run

hatfield girl said...

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Electro-Kevin said...

Perhaps if our best weren't working in banks or building property portfolios for themselves we'd have our artificial blood by now.