Artificial Blood!

Originally Posted by ElectricSheep

This stuff isn't even really being viewed as a blood replacement. This is simply a highly efficient oxygen carrier. Blood performs many more functions, including transport of nutrients, wastes, thermal energy, clotting factors, and immuno-agents. As mentioned in the article, this synthetic being applied as an oxygen therapy rather than blood replacement. It ensures that oxygen can be delivered to areas of the body that red blood cells can no longer go due to swelling or clotting. In the case of a traumatic brain injury, where swelling pinches off tiny blood vessels and starves the tissue of oxygen, it can make the difference between recovery and permanent brain damage.

Well done ElectricSheep, you have just saved the scientist's integrity by clarifying what was said in the article. I just want to highlight that there are possible side effects in the use of Oxycyte as mentioned in the last page of the article, for example, the swelling of the liver and the decrease of platelet count. That said, Oxycyte is far from being a blood substitute in the general, multipurpose sense - it only substitutes blood on the surgeon's table - one tiny, albeit life-saving specific function it was designed to serve. Misunderstood truths are often more dangerous than truth that has not been understood, so don't go around spreading myths yet eh! :eyebrow:

Jam it back in, in the dark.