Quote (CompanyOfThree @ 12 Feb 2010 13:23)
I thought they were already doing that? Correct me if I'm wrong- but isn't the whole point of saving plasma (drawing blood) is because it can be preserved, whereas blood can't? Or something like that? I thought they already figured out that plasma had white blood cell characteristics x_x
Did I just miss out on my golden ticket?
yes they've been taking plasma for a while now
so what you're saying is that the plasma can be frozen or freeze dried or something so it can be stored for longer term than straight blood can?
because I thought that the plasma was just the liquid, that the centrifuged the blood cells out.
typically they use blood as a sort of donor system. Like if you are in a car accident and badly wounded, or undergoing dangerous surgery, and you need blood, they give you some of someone elses to keep you alive.
this is something different and is pretty controversial
yes, there are antibodies (white blood cells) always going around your blood stream, but if you are healthy it is a pretty low count
what i was referring to when i said holy fucking shit, was they they are taking humans, injecting them with a virus that will cause them to produce white blood cells, extracting their blood, separating the white cells out of them, and making drugs out of them.
which is say, a lot more controversial than taking bone marrow from mice, splicing it with human dna, and genetically engineering CHO cells that will produce the same antibodies.