Some countries experienced shortages of donor blood, as a result loads of crisis space patients are often not helped. One of the much-needed blood components can at the moment be made from materials which can be incredibly abundant in Asia, namely rice.
This innovative breakthroughs pioneered by Yang He, a scientist from the Chinese University. Of the grains of rice, Yang He managed to synthesize components in the blood called Human Serum Albumin (HSA) are required for first aid along at the emergency room.
In addition to the donor, Yang He said that the HSA is actually a great deal of proteins can also be required by the drug industry in several countries. Blood components is beneficial in the development of drugs and vaccines from the laboratory.
However, resulting from recent blood donors increasingly scarce, Yang He and his colleagues developed an artificial HSA from rice. From 1 kg of rice, he managed to synthesize approximately 2.75 grams of HSA the precise chemical organization of native proteins from human being blood.
"The surplus, as it does not come from the original blood of this HSA of rice is freed from infectious disease risk," said Dr. Richard J Benjamin with the American National Red Cross when commenting on these findings, as quoted by FoxNews, Tuesday (01/11/2011).
The effectiveness of synthetic blood from this rice to switch the native protein through the blood continues to be demonstrated during a Yang He experiments with rats. Nevertheless, these findings still have to wait a few more years that they are applied to humans.
Yet Dr. Benjamin said, the findings will not completely overcome the scarcity of donor blood because only bsia replace only one component of blood which may be HSA. In practice, the required blood components such as platelets are very diverse
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