Actually 9 reasons, and one of the 9 is allowed to go free and just given a gentle recommendation to verify it :P But a fun article for anyone on the fence about whether to donate or not, obviously slanted towards “yes, donate.”
Actually 9 reasons, and one of the 9 is allowed to go free and just given a gentle recommendation to verify it :P But a fun article for anyone on the fence about whether to donate or not, obviously slanted towards “yes, donate.”
I don’t give blood because we have the technology to mass-produce completely antigen-free red blood cells artificially, but we don’t because there are so many donors.
There is a blood shortage in almost every single nation on earth. What are you talking about?
That’s not true. Cultured blood cells can’t be produced at anywhere near the volume or cost of donated blood. Synthetics are still a long way off.
No one is working on it because we have so much volume. But it is very technologically feasible.
Feasible, yes, but we don’t currently have the technology so donors are necessary.
There are people working on synthetic and cultured replacements. It’s not true that “we have so much volume” that no one is working on it. There’s massive shortage of donors.