Breakthrough in Longevity
Breakthrough: Synthetic Blood And Longevity On August 16, 2010 British "scientists have proven the principle that from embryonic stem cells lines, red blood cells can be generated".
Professor Marc Turner, Edinburgh University.
Synthetic blood is coming.
So What? Inquiring Minds are interested in extending their own longevity and that of the rest of us.
Every year in Great Britain 2.
5 million donations of blood are required for transfusions and medical blood products.
Shortages of blood are annual challenges in GB and the USA.
The cost of one pint averages over $500 when finally used by a patient.
A price drop of up to 65% is possible with synthetic blood.
Wait, there is more.
Who Cares Synthetic blood is automatically free of infections, viruses, including Mad Cow disease.
Synthetic blood will not be rejected by the receiver.
The final product is O-Negative blood, the Universal type transfused into 99.
9% of humans without fear of rejection by the receiving body.
Only 7% of the donor population has O-Negative.
Now up to 100% will be O-Neg.
It has been about seven years in the research stage.
Well-meaning folks are already complaining the scientists involved are baby killers.
Red blood cells are created from spare IVF (In Vitro Fertilization).
This is well before life is created.
IVF means eggs cells are fertilized by sperm outside the womb.
In-Vitro is Latin meaning "within the glass", in test tubes or Petri dishes.
And The breakthrough consisted of 100 spare embryos as stem cell lines.
They were converted into Red cells containing Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying pigment of the blood cells.
Before you say, Who Cares? - the next step is to create synthetic (artificially produced) liver, eye and heart cells.
Imagine the end of heart disease and the Big C in your lifetime? Now we all care, right? It will take up to five years before clinical tests on humans.
Why so long? In the U.
S.
the Federal Drug Administration has extensive protocols before approval.
Maybe C.
Craig Venter (the Human Genome) could speed it up.
Could synthetic blood end all Vampire movie and TV shows? Who is This Venter Here we go again.
On May 21, 2010 synthetic (artificial) life was created by biologist C.
Craig Venter and his team.
Get this: the first living organism with a completely synthetic Genome leading to artificial life was verified at the Venter Institute.
Inquiring minds and working pathologists be aware: the Venter Institute team in Rockville Maryland has created the first synthetic life form.
So? "The cell's lineage is the standard Computer, not any other genetic code.
" Daniel Gibson, lead author of Science journal article.
What did they do? Built a genome of a bacterium from step #1 and inserting it into a cell.
The Guardian (G.
B.
) said, "it paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.
" These are the same great folks who brought the world 'sequencing the first human genome.
' Practical Use It is called KGF-2 and hospitals purchase it from commercial laboratories.
What it does is start human healing artificially, instead of waiting for Mother Nature.
Think about it for a second, if new gene therapy can introduce healing during an operation, the next step is turning off heart disease and cancer genes.
Huh? Quick Biography Venter is up for a Nobel Prize.
He is a pariah in the scientific community - they hope he cashes in his chips.
Why? He has scooped government scientists and those at universities trying to break the genetic code.
Venter's team did it faster by years, and much cheaper by millions of dollars.
Nobody (scientists included) likes a competitor that works harder and better.
Venter's team dominated the Human Genome Project.
In the year 2000, he mapped the human genome three-years ahead of schedule.
In 2010 Venter again beat the scientific community by producing the first cell with a synthetic genome.
No one is betting the Venter Institute will not create further breakthroughs in creating synthetic life.
What kind? He doesn't want to alert his competitors.
That makes him a bad competitor, but a world-class scientist.
So What This technology will create better diagnostic tests and new tools for analyzing diseases, and the best form of treatment.
Get this: Venter says the Institute's work will have applications in new vaccines, pharmaceuticals and even improved water.
Endwords Some scientists claim Venter's work is dangerous to mankind.
They fear the Frankenstein Effect because he is playing too loose taking precautions with his synthetic life program.
They demand he use a level 3 containment laboratory and dispose of his yeast culture with greater care.
He arrogantly responds, we solved that problem five-years ago, thank you very much.
I am betting on C.
Craig Venter for future successes - after his Nobel.
Professor Marc Turner, Edinburgh University.
Synthetic blood is coming.
So What? Inquiring Minds are interested in extending their own longevity and that of the rest of us.
Every year in Great Britain 2.
5 million donations of blood are required for transfusions and medical blood products.
Shortages of blood are annual challenges in GB and the USA.
The cost of one pint averages over $500 when finally used by a patient.
A price drop of up to 65% is possible with synthetic blood.
Wait, there is more.
Who Cares Synthetic blood is automatically free of infections, viruses, including Mad Cow disease.
Synthetic blood will not be rejected by the receiver.
The final product is O-Negative blood, the Universal type transfused into 99.
9% of humans without fear of rejection by the receiving body.
Only 7% of the donor population has O-Negative.
Now up to 100% will be O-Neg.
It has been about seven years in the research stage.
Well-meaning folks are already complaining the scientists involved are baby killers.
Red blood cells are created from spare IVF (In Vitro Fertilization).
This is well before life is created.
IVF means eggs cells are fertilized by sperm outside the womb.
In-Vitro is Latin meaning "within the glass", in test tubes or Petri dishes.
And The breakthrough consisted of 100 spare embryos as stem cell lines.
They were converted into Red cells containing Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying pigment of the blood cells.
Before you say, Who Cares? - the next step is to create synthetic (artificially produced) liver, eye and heart cells.
Imagine the end of heart disease and the Big C in your lifetime? Now we all care, right? It will take up to five years before clinical tests on humans.
Why so long? In the U.
S.
the Federal Drug Administration has extensive protocols before approval.
Maybe C.
Craig Venter (the Human Genome) could speed it up.
Could synthetic blood end all Vampire movie and TV shows? Who is This Venter Here we go again.
On May 21, 2010 synthetic (artificial) life was created by biologist C.
Craig Venter and his team.
Get this: the first living organism with a completely synthetic Genome leading to artificial life was verified at the Venter Institute.
Inquiring minds and working pathologists be aware: the Venter Institute team in Rockville Maryland has created the first synthetic life form.
So? "The cell's lineage is the standard Computer, not any other genetic code.
" Daniel Gibson, lead author of Science journal article.
What did they do? Built a genome of a bacterium from step #1 and inserting it into a cell.
The Guardian (G.
B.
) said, "it paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.
" These are the same great folks who brought the world 'sequencing the first human genome.
' Practical Use It is called KGF-2 and hospitals purchase it from commercial laboratories.
What it does is start human healing artificially, instead of waiting for Mother Nature.
Think about it for a second, if new gene therapy can introduce healing during an operation, the next step is turning off heart disease and cancer genes.
Huh? Quick Biography Venter is up for a Nobel Prize.
He is a pariah in the scientific community - they hope he cashes in his chips.
Why? He has scooped government scientists and those at universities trying to break the genetic code.
Venter's team did it faster by years, and much cheaper by millions of dollars.
Nobody (scientists included) likes a competitor that works harder and better.
Venter's team dominated the Human Genome Project.
In the year 2000, he mapped the human genome three-years ahead of schedule.
In 2010 Venter again beat the scientific community by producing the first cell with a synthetic genome.
No one is betting the Venter Institute will not create further breakthroughs in creating synthetic life.
What kind? He doesn't want to alert his competitors.
That makes him a bad competitor, but a world-class scientist.
So What This technology will create better diagnostic tests and new tools for analyzing diseases, and the best form of treatment.
Get this: Venter says the Institute's work will have applications in new vaccines, pharmaceuticals and even improved water.
Endwords Some scientists claim Venter's work is dangerous to mankind.
They fear the Frankenstein Effect because he is playing too loose taking precautions with his synthetic life program.
They demand he use a level 3 containment laboratory and dispose of his yeast culture with greater care.
He arrogantly responds, we solved that problem five-years ago, thank you very much.
I am betting on C.
Craig Venter for future successes - after his Nobel.
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