How Future Blood Shortages Could Be Solved in the Lab | WSJ

The coronavirus pandemic led to shortages in the blood supply across the U.S. Scientists around the world are working on a potential solution. The Future of Everything looks at the process of making artificial blood. Illustration: Timothy Wong
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[@jessetorres8738]

If we ever entered a vampire apocalypse like the film Daybreakers, this will be most helpful.

[@runningfromabear8354]

There's always going to those idiots that want everything "natural" that screw it up.

[@chaoticrealm777]

How does keeping the Megakaryocytes moving lead to them making even more platelets? I know this isn't a technical video, but this really was glossed over.

[@adiabd1]

my guess is, by moving them, the megakaryocytes got stimulated by more nutrients per surface area

[@teaklee6]

This may help: platelets are fragments of the megakaryocytes.

[@zeryphex]

I donate blood, every two months. I am O+ type.

[@kuppaabhi6813]

I donated my blood 3 times

[@chineduokafor6763]

So no transfusion reactions and no issues with HLA ?

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

thank you that Japanese person who tried these, hope you are well :D

[@ericdougherty9556]

Im a little confused, this video report went from discussing how a blood shortage is encouraging the development of synthesized blood to: they can make platelets. Platelets and blood are two very different things. Humans can donate platelets much more often then blood, however it requires a special machine that isnt available at most blood drives. Since the video doesnt bother to discuss the second half of this subject, I guess we have to just assume theyll fix the blood shortage another way

[@chessknight4415]

This is super important medical research

[@shehanism]

This is great news!

[@TumPheakOfficial]

Wish you all healthy 💓

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So nice

[@adamsmith3413]

Blood volume expanders have been available for decades.

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[@JamesLee-lf4fr]

Why just platelets? as blood have more than just platelets.

[@aarononeal9830]

The wallstreet journal needs to do a video about ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees with their profits

[@pinkysweets]

planting trees doesn't do anything to help the environment, just symbolic gesture that makes people feel better about themselves

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Trung Bui it does, it transforms CO2 into O2 all the while providing a functioning ecosystem. Maybe consider going back to school buddy

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@@riley1636 Ecosia is a start

[@ilsopravvissuto6860]

Interest

[@TheLiamster]

One of my biggest fears is needing a blood transfusion or an organ transplant and there is none available.

[@kartikpatil5097]

Please delete your post

[@glipk]

@@kartikpatil5097 ?

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I wanted to comment 3rd

[@crashweaverda]

10 years ago a company was making big gains in this field. When I finaly decided to buy there stock big pharma beet me to it and they were gone.

[@TumPheakOfficial]

Hello everybody. How are you today?

[@glipk]

Cool

[@allstar8000]

Why don't you name the researchers, especially the ones who made the 2006 breakthrough?

[@timothygenewong]

Takahashi and Yamanaka were the researchers. You can find a summary of their research in this abstract: www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674%2806%2900976-7 With the application in humans found here: www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674%2807%2901471-7

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

Sea water and egg cell could help create artificial blood

[@annedzurnak9815]

Pay people for blood donations

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If Vampires exist, humans and vampires can sure co-exist peacefully due to this

[@chessknight4415]

Vampires are fictional story characters and you know it

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These kind of things/ news scares me..........🙄

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Mee to

[@chessknight4415]

Do not be afraid

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Who's gonna volunteer for some artificial blood fresh out of the lab

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

You might not know this but a number of people would give anything to have this. As the narrator stated, there's a blood shortage going around. This might not see much, but just having the option would help a lot of people

[@krishnachaitanya6800]

Can they defend simple cold... I doubt it

[@chessknight4415]

Continue to doubt medicine and science. See where that leads

[@Hotdogenthusiast]

Science takes time.

[@Je.rone_]

We need to start farming people.... This Is a joke, a dark joke perhaps but a joke nonetheless

[@jessetorres8738]

Watch the film Daybreakers if you haven't already

[@Je.rone_]

@@jessetorres8738 i haven't yet

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

Watch The Promised Neverland. I swear it's a good series

[@Je.rone_]

@@TheZombiesoul i don't and that's the scary part😳

[@adiabd1]

@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 in the end, she got what she wants but lost everyone at the same time

[@Cps1402]

Why people stop donating blood? Simple, because even though they donate for free. You still need to buy it in the hospital if you needed it.

[@dmarl1042]

The "raw material" is free. But you need to maintain the facility and people that ensures the safety of the donor, the blood is "clean" and kept properly, etc

[@haidweng7948]

it cant ,there just way too many cell in human body

[@frogstud]

blood for the blood god

[@chessknight4415]

Frogstud if you want to go listen to rock music and watch blade 2, go ahead. This is a serious video about important medical research. stop wasting everyone's time

[@AkmalPK442]

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[@samanan268]

I have discovered the formation of natural human blood from scripture

[@tomasigreja]

ggs.

[@pedropagan7980]

This is propaganda: patented blood. Patented rNA inside the human genome. The owners of the patents will have "legal property" ownership inside human bodies.

[@jesusrios444]

Why donate blood for free when hospitals make all the money? If you could sell blood at the market price there wouldn’t be any shortage

[@HusseinDoha]

Nearly all the hospitals I know of are non-for-profits. The hospitals don't charge patients for the blood.

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[@artuselias]

That "explanation" was way too fast.

[@pedropagan7980]

It's propaganda.

[@dexter8838]

Just don't make this in China 😀

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This comment makes no sense

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Third

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Second

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akshay from Madras

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@@PHlophe No

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Just one sentence from one of your articles to show how insane you are ..... ready .... here goes ..... protesters threw burning material into the lobby of the apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives. PROTESTERS????