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Artifical Blood
Title: Artifical Blood
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2470 | Pages: 10.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Artifical Blood
Every 3.7 seconds someone in the United States is receiving a blood transfusion and a total of thirty million units of blood is transfused throughout the world annually (Cannell 1999)1. In the 1600’s Louis XIV physician, Jean-Baptiste, performed the first blood transfusion when he took nine ounces of lamb’s blood and placed it into a teenage boy. Not only were blood transfusions experimented with on humans but animals too. For example, the English used dogs in …showed first 75 words of 2470 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2470 total…always be a shortage of donor blood due to its lack of shelf life thus a substitute is required. The routine use of artificial blood still has a long way ahead of itself. Researchers must find a way to prolong the life-span of the artificial blood in the human body and reduce the costs of the substitute. When these components are fulfilled, the bloody race for a blood substitute will finally come to an end.
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