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Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by chmod775 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:18AM (#18816198)
> Human blood is limited in availability, and would be phenomenally expensive

Just wait until researchers realize where to obtain human blood for free...

You're looking awfully pale today Steven!

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Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by jonlucc on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:54PM (#18817970)
You joke, but I work in a pharmaceutical company, and we have a program specifically for employees to donate blood for research purposes. It's complicated so that the donors and researchers are blinded to where the blood comes from and who it goes to.
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