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Back to Episodes"Artificial Blood"- Dr. Allan Doctor - University of Maryland (S7 E14)
Published 9 months ago
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For years, it's been a given that there's no such thing as artificial blood. Well not anymore. Thanks to researchers like Dr. Allan Doctor and his team at the University of Maryland, the prospect of articial blood could be years away instead of decades. And when you consider that only 3 out of 100 people actually donate blood, you begin to understand the kind of impact that this reseaarch has. Recently, Allan Doctor spoke to Bloodworks 101 producer John Yeager, via Zoom. Here's today's edition of Bloodworks 101.