Plastic Blood

As I was looking on digg.com the other day I found this article. The article summed up though basically says that we now have a substitute for blood in case of an emergency. When I saw this I was excited to see it, but disappointed that someone stole another one of my great ideas. How it works is really quite simple. It is made up of little plastic molecules that will imitate blood's function, which of course is to deliver oxygen. The way blood does this is by attracting an Oxygen molecule to it with iron. The hemoglobin in the blood, which makes up 97% of the dry matter of the cell contains iron. This iron attracts the oxygen molecule. The same way the oxygen from water gets on your bike chain and makes it rusty.

What this 'plastic' blood is made out of is plastic molecules with an iron atom at its core acting like hemoglobin. Pretty slick those idea stealing scientists. Since this is plastic is is also cheap to produce and easy to store and transport. It would be possible to store these in an ambulance or for the armed forces.


It will be first on display in London May 22nd. Hopefully it goes well and if it works well, it doesn't take long before it can be used to start saving lives.