Eli5: Why can’t we produce “artificial” blood?

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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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It might be hard to grasp but blood is, for all intents and purposes, an organ. So you can’t make blood for the same reason you can’t make skin, hair or a brain.

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