Sentences with phrase «synthetic blood»

Some 73 % say this about gene editing, while an identical share says the same about synthetic blood; 74 % says this about brain chip implants.

Researchers hope that a whale - inspired oxygen carrier could help develop synthetic blood in the future.

For example, 47 % of Americans consider the use of synthetic blood substitutes to improve physical abilities an «appropriate use of technology» if the resulting change to people's speed, strength and stamina would be «equal to their own peak abilities.»

For example, 49 % of adults say transfusions with synthetic blood for much improved physical abilities would be «meddling with nature,» while a roughly equal share (48 %) say this idea is no different than other ways human have tried to better themselves.

Although blood cells serve multiple roles in the body and have complex interactions with other cellular materials, most synthetic blood products have aimed to just stick to the bare basics — shuttling oxygen from the lungs to different vital organs and then bringing carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be exhaled.

Fewer women than men say they would want gene editing for their baby (43 % vs. 54 %), brain chip implants (26 % vs. 39 %) or synthetic blood substitute for themselves (28 % vs. 43 %).

Evil Aliens from a distant asteroid invade the Earth to create half - human robots with synthetic blood and body parts Astro - Zombies!

Olson's goal is to create synthetic blood for use in transfusions.

Not after a major study dealt a seemingly fatal blow to the field — determining that the top synthetic blood candidates at the time were all more likely to kill you than to save your life.

Another blood substitute provider, Synthetic Blood International, Inc., in Costa Mesa, Calif., has thus far successfully navigated the clinical trial waters with Oxycyte, an oxygen - carrying intravenous emulsion that the company says can carry up to four times more oxygen than hemoglobin.

In May, Synthetic Blood announced its phase II study in patients with traumatic brain injury indicated Oxycyte helped increase blood oxygen levels.

The layers, which resemble the computer microchips, are then stacked into a 3D structure of synthetic blood vessels.

Deep - diving whales may harbor the key to synthetic blood development for trauma patients, R&D Magazine reports.

The forecasted scenarios were using gene editing to reduce the risk of serious diseases in infants, implanting computer chips in the brain to improve cognition, and introducing synthetic blood into the body to improve physical capabilities.

«This work is very important for our projects on synthetic blood substitutes and determining the toxicity of acellular hemoglobin,» he said.

The ultra-stable properties of the proteins that allow deep - diving whales to remain active while holding their breath for up to two hours could help Rice Univ. biochemist John Olson and his colleagues finish a 20 - year quest to create lifesaving synthetic blood for human trauma patients.

This first season deals with the relationship between mind - reading homegirl Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and smouldering bloodsucker Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) in a world where the creation of nourishing synthetic blood — the eponymous «TruBlood» — has, quite inadvertently, enabled vampires and humans to co-exist peacefully.

For the uninitiated, «True Blood» takes place in a world where vampires are attempting to assimilate with human society following the Japanese invention of synthetic blood.

The first product is expected to be a synthetic blood - vessel graft with a coating that reduces clots and scarring.

The nationally representative survey of more than 4,700 U.S. adults centered on public views about: gene editing that might give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implantation of brain chips that potentially could give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information, and transfusions of synthetic blood that might give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

And, six - in - ten or more of those high in religious commitment consider these potential enhancements to be meddling with nature, crossing a line that should not be crossed (gene editing 64 %; brain chip implants 65 %; and synthetic blood 60 %).

A majority of Americans would be «very» or «somewhat» worried about gene editing (68 %); brain chips (69 %); and synthetic blood (63 %), while no more than half say they would be enthusiastic about each of these developments.

«Americans worried about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood: US adults show more concern than enthusiasm for using these to «enhance» human abilities.»

The current controversy around doping in sports commonly surfaced during discussions about the use of synthetic blood to enhance physical performance.

The specific examples were: gene editing to give babies a lifetime with much reduced risk of serious disease, implanting brain chips to give people a much improved ability to concentrate and process information and transfusing of synthetic blood to give people much greater speed, strength and stamina.

Majorities of U.S. adults say they would be «very» or «somewhat» worried about gene editing (68 %), brain chips (69 %) and synthetic blood (63 %), while no more than half say they would be enthusiastic about each of these developments.

While set in the present day, vampires have «come out of the coffin» and now co-exist with the rest of us, resisting their primal urges by drinking a synthetic blood - substitute called Tru Blood.

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer continue to anchor the show as telepathic roadhouse waitress Sookie Stackhouse and soulful vampire Bill Compton, one of the many undead bloodsuckers who «came out» with the invention of synthetic blood and is attempting to find his place in human society.

Adapted from the novels by Charlaine Harris and developed for HBO by Alan Ball, it stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a roadhouse waitress who can read minds (and believe me, there's nothing going on in their small, petty minds that she wants to hear), and Bill Compton as a vampire who, like the rest of the undead nation, has come out of the closet with the invention of synthetic blood.

The HBO series based on the novels first aired in 2008 and takes its name from the synthetic blood that vampires in Harris's world drink to slake their craving for the real thing.

Richman pleaded guilty in March to lying to Judge Patti Saris, who presided over a Securities and Exchange Commission suit accusing Biopure of misleading investors about its synthetic blood product Hemopure.