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270 - Universal Artificial Blood

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Show Notes

On today’s episode: Tiny drug robots! We learn about the history of artificial blood. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs — and then dissolve Teeny robots could deliver drugs to specific spots - Futurity https://www.nature.com/articles/s44303-024-00007-5 What Do Blood Cells Do? First-in-human phase 1 trial of hemoglobin vesicles as artificial red blood cells developed for use as a transfusion alternative | NIH Artificial Blood That Could Work for All Blood Types in Trials | Newsweek

CREDITS: Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong Booking - September McCrady THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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