New Artificial Blood Made In Transylvania, Could Lead To ‘Instant Blood’ Doctors Mix With Water
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Just in time for Halloween, researchers from the historically Transylvanian city of Romania, called Cluj-Napoca, announced the first-ever artificial blood that could be used without fearing life-threatening side effects of prior models.
The new artificial blood relies not on hemoglobin, like typical artificial bloods, but hemerythrin — a protein extracted from sea worms that is then mixed with water and salts. Doctors can use the artificial blood to reduce infection rates during blood donation, and to supply lost stores in patients for several hours or even up to a day, researcher Dr. Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu says.
“Mice treated with this ‘Made in Cluj’ artificial blood did not experience any side effects, and this is precisely what we want,” he told Romanian news outlet Descopera, adding that human trials can only take place once the team is 100 percent sure mice experience no toxicity from the blood. “Tests on humans are an extra gentle subject – authorization…represents a huge risk.”
Hemerythrin mirrors hemoglobin in its duties — transporting oxygen throughout an organism’s body — but differs in which organisms those duties are performed. Nearly all vertebrates use hemoglobin to ferry oxygen within red blood cells, while hemerythrin is found only in certain invertebrates, namely worms and valves. The hemerythrin-based artificial blood isn’t the deep red normally associated with blood, but more of a translucent yellow, although Silaghi-Dumitrescu said they were able to color it red for familiarity.
Hemerythrin is preferable to hemoglobin, the researcher added, because hemerythrin does not easily succumb to the physical and chemical stress when introduced into a living organism. Hemoglobin tends to lose its integrity through such exposure.[/quote]
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Now those 'vampires' won't have to drink their own blood!
looks like blood shortages won't kill people in the long run from now! I'm actually fairly impressed.
How typical that this got invented in Transylvania.
I didn't know romania even had schools and research centers. I thought they just exported beautiful women.
[QUOTE=V12US;42773695]How typical that this got invented in Transylvania.[/QUOTE]
It was really developed to pay blood tithes to vampires.
[QUOTE=V12US;42773695]How typical that this got invented in Transylvania.[/QUOTE]
It is probably the greatest coincidence ever.
[QUOTE=Del91;42773714]I didn't know [B]romania even had schools and research centers[/B]. I thought they just exported beautiful women.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck
What, you thought this country is a wasteland made up of villages and run-down buildings?
True Blood came to mind when I saw this. Soon enough we'll be seeing this alongside with other drinks in stores. :v:
[img]http://www.fictionalfood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Tru-Blood.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=V12US;42773695]How typical that this got invented in Transylvania.[/QUOTE]
And people say there isn't a god.
My parents are from Cluj, glad to hear cool stuff coming from there.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42773740]What the fuck
What, you thought this country is a wasteland made up of villages and run-down buildings?[/QUOTE]
Yes. I literally thought Romania was all vampires and hags and castles. I've honestly never even thought about what Romania was like.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42773740]What the fuck
What, you think this country is wasteland made of village and run-down building?[/QUOTE]
ftfy
[QUOTE=Del91;42773714]I didn't know romania even had schools and research centers. I thought they just exported beautiful women.[/QUOTE]
That's Moldova :v:
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42773740]What the fuck
What, you thought this country is a wasteland made up of villages and run-down buildings?[/QUOTE]
Not in it's entirety of course. Some of your emigrants speak of an early-1900 or post-CCCP-fall setting in its countryside, tho.
[QUOTE=Del91;42774218]Yes. I literally thought Romania was all vampires and hags and castles. I've honestly never even thought about what Romania was like.[/QUOTE]
Well, here's a video of Cluj Napoca. The city where the research was done.
[media][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tVwBmFQ62g[/URL][/media]
Just so you get an idea. I mean we're EU members after all, a good economy is a requirement to join.
Should be white, like in the MGS universe.
[QUOTE=codemaster85;42774784]Should be white, like in the MGS universe.[/QUOTE]
Actually they do have white artificial blood. That's where MGS got it from.. When they started messing around with artificial blood back in 2006 this is an article that came out with it. [url]http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-11/better-blood[/url]
Is it possible this comes in a green variety? I'd like to replace my blood with green blood to be a Vulcan :v:
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42773740]What the fuck
What, you thought this country is a wasteland made up of villages and run-down buildings?[/QUOTE]
Well obviously thats what every Eastern European country ever is like.
Proud to be Romanian, where everyone thinks the country is a shithole but really isn't bad
[QUOTE=Mechwarrior;42775037]Actually they do have white artificial blood. That's where MGS got it from.. When they started messing around with artificial blood back in 2006 this is an article that came out with it. [url]http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-11/better-blood[/url][/QUOTE]
Time'll tell whether we go with this Cluj-Napoca (which sounds more Aztec than Eastern European in my opinion) serum or Oxycyte. But personally I think that we'd go mostly with Cluj-Napoca serum, with Oxycyte for situations where injured individuals require a boost of super-oxygenated blood.
But the real beauty would come from a gene-augment that allows our bone marrow to synthesize Oxycytes alongside red blood cells, though it'd require us to consume more fluorine and would likely be packaged with an augment that prevents fluorine poisoning, being that Oxycyte molecules are made from perfluorocarbons and thus requires fluorine in it's fabrication. So in other words, swallowing the toothpaste and drinking the fluoridated water would supply the fluorine required for augmented bone marrow to grow Oxycytes, so we already have the nutritional infrastructure for the marrow-altering Oxycyte augment.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/RS3aS1w.png[/t]
Yeah, artificial blood. [B]Or so you think.[/B]
This is transylvania. I won't trust them on anything regarding blood, ever.
Vampires still cant exist since you cant drink blood in any real quantity without puking.
[QUOTE=ironman17;42775841]Time'll tell whether we go with this Cluj-Napoca ([B]which sounds more Aztec than Eastern European in my opinion[/B]) serum or Oxycyte. But personally I think that we'd go mostly with Cluj-Napoca serum, with Oxycyte for situations where injured individuals require a boost of super-oxygenated blood.
But the real beauty would come from a gene-augment that allows our bone marrow to synthesize Oxycytes alongside red blood cells, though it'd require us to consume more fluorine and would likely be packaged with an augment that prevents fluorine poisoning, being that Oxycyte molecules are made from perfluorocarbons and thus requires fluorine in it's fabrication. So in other words, swallowing the toothpaste and drinking the fluoridated water would supply the fluorine required for augmented bone marrow to grow Oxycytes, so we already have the nutritional infrastructure for the marrow-altering Oxycyte augment.[/QUOTE]
Napoca comes from the romans, Cluj from the medieval times, both names are latin. The city changed a lot of names, and eventually these 2 names were combined.
[QUOTE=areolop;42777942]Vampires still cant exist since you cant drink blood in any real quantity without puking.[/QUOTE]
And you would know this how... ?
[QUOTE=areolop;42777942]Vampires still cant exist since you cant drink blood in any real quantity without puking.[/QUOTE]
But vampires aren't human.
[QUOTE=areolop;42777942]Vampires still cant exist since you cant drink blood in any real quantity without puking.[/QUOTE]
But vampire bats drink blood and I'd assume that if vampires were real then they would have similar properties to a vampire bat
[QUOTE=VagueWisdom;42773772]True Blood came to mind when I saw this. Soon enough we'll be seeing this alongside with other drinks in stores. :v:
[img]http://www.fictionalfood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Tru-Blood.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Tru Blood is Japanese, not Romanian
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