Most of it is not approved for use in humans.
Comment on Red Cross announces national blood shortage
tallwookie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
isnt synthetic blood a thing? I thought it was…
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
btfod@hexbear.net 1 year ago
What does all this synthetic blood get used for, then?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Mostly in veterinary medicine, few countries that have lax regulations also allow the use on humans in limited cases.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I worked for a company 20 years ago that had already been trying to bring synthetic blood to market for 20 years.
Far as I know they still haven’t released it.
It’s really, really hard to do.