Why Is Fake Blood so Hard to Make?

Published on May 22, 2017
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Functional artificial blood could solve a lot of problems, so why hasn’t it been created yet?

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Sources:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170419100831.htm
https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/27/artificial-blood-substitute/
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