Actually 9 reasons, and one of the 9 is allowed to go free and just given a gentle recommendation to verify it :P But a fun article for anyone on the fence about whether to donate or not, obviously slanted towards “yes, donate.”
Actually 9 reasons, and one of the 9 is allowed to go free and just given a gentle recommendation to verify it :P But a fun article for anyone on the fence about whether to donate or not, obviously slanted towards “yes, donate.”
That’s not true. Cultured blood cells can’t be produced at anywhere near the volume or cost of donated blood. Synthetics are still a long way off.
No one is working on it because we have so much volume. But it is very technologically feasible.
Feasible, yes, but we don’t currently have the technology so donors are necessary.
There are people working on synthetic and cultured replacements. It’s not true that “we have so much volume” that no one is working on it. There’s massive shortage of donors.
Flip the thing around. Why should we introduce some dependency on a technology when the “simple” system is already very effective?