What Next - Could Artificial Blood Save Lives?
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Blood has a very short shelf life, even under the best of conditions—and you can picture the less-than-ideal conditions where blood is frequently needed—which is why scientists have been working on a blood alternative. The results are promising.
Guest: Nicky Twilley, host of “Gastropod” podcast and author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and Ourselves.
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther.
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| 1:16.2 | So, Nikki, can I call you a vampire? |
| 1:21.6 | I mean, since we're friends. |
| 1:25.7 | Nikki Twilly is a reporter over at The New Yorker. |
| 1:29.4 | She also hosts a podcast called Gastropod. So it makes sense that she likes to taste things, including blood, sort of. |
| 1:36.2 | You've actually tasted synthetic blood? |
| 1:39.3 | Yes, I have chugged a shot of synthetic blood. |
| 1:43.5 | I don't think you can call me a real vampire, only a fake vampire, which is a synthetic vampire, if you will. |
| 1:52.0 | Still a vampire. |
| 1:52.8 | But an artificial one. |
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