Sunday, January 17, 2010

Search For An Artificial Blood Substitute

Professor Chris Cooper showing the changes in blood color.
(Credit: Image courtesy of University of Essex)


From Science Daily:

ScienceDaily (Jan. 17, 2010) — If the current wave of vampire stories is to be believed, humans can peacefully co-exist with vampires.

The Twilight book trilogy has 'vegetarian' vampires living on animal blood, and in the TV series True Blood, Japanese scientists have developed a synthetic blood substitute. However, in the most recent blockbuster movie Daybreakers, vampires suffer a horrific fate when attempting to drink their blood substitute.

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