October 31, 2006
Back from Hiatus?
We shall see, I am extremely overworked, and I am not sure if I can personally sustain the frequency I was posting at a few months ago, but I will try to get in at least once a week. My suggestion? Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Oxycyte: Better Than Blood?
Artificial blood, is it the next big thing? This article from Popular Science about Oxycyte, and artificial blood gives me hope, after all blood is one of the most basic elements of our body, and if we can improve that, we improve a huge element of what makes us human.
A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it’s the best way to treat America’s leading cause of accidental death: traumatic brain injury.
It's like the oil that greases our fleshy engine, and I for one would like to switch to something that will give me a little more oomph, and a few extra years. Maybe Oxycyte isn't it, but the idea of replacing our blood with something better doesn't seem that far off.