Healthcare systems depend on blood donations, which are harmless for the donors because humans usually just reproduce blood and can repeat the process over and over. What about blood is so special that we can’t manufacture it in a lab or replace is with artificial blood?
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Red blood cells are produced in the Bone marrow. If we could make an artificial bone marrow, we could probably do that. But it’s way less efficient than just taking donated blood, since healthy people’s blood gets replenished as time passes.
So it would be a waste of Time and resources developing an artificial blood source for this purpose. There are more than enough blood donors to go around and it’s not really that much of a problem for the donors as much as it is a life saving thing for people who need surgery or a blood transfusion.
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