Japanese scientists create artificial blood

[ElliotSmith]

TL;DR

Japanese scientists create an artificial blood that could potentially be given to all blood types.

Scientists in Japan create an artificial blood that could potentially be given to all blood types.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-a...ould-potentially-be-given-to-all-blood-types/

 

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That article converted 117.4 million units (in its source) to 117.4 billion units (in the article) of blood donations per year - a number so absurd that every little bit of proofreading should have caught it.
There are many caveats with this approach. Only tested on rabbits so far, with a small sample size (10 rabbits per group). It also doesn't contain normal hemoglobin, but something they created in the lab. How that affects animals in the long run is unclear.