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Military Developing Blood Farming Machine, Zombie Apocalypse Coming Soon [Bloody Hell]
Gizmodo — ... It uses a nano-fiber structure that replicates bone marrow, which is where red cells are manufactured. While their objective is to have a machine that could be moved to any camp and produce RBC units ready to be infused in wounded soldiers, and thus avoiding transportation and storage of blood, this research will obviously have important implications for everyone. Until then, maybe you can do a good action and donate some of your blood today. Or at least, buy a vampire a drink. [Cnet] ...

DARPA teams up with Arteriocyte to create ominous-sounding blood pharming machine for the military
Engadget — Filed under: Misc. Gadgets DARPA's been running a blood pharming program for quite awhile now, but it's gotten a real kick start this week with the announcement of a partnership with Cleveland-based biotech company Arteriocyte. Arteriocyte, it seems, has developed a Nanofiber Based System, or NANEX, a technology that enables the ...

Pentagon Wants Portable Red Blood Factories
Medgadget — ... mimics bone marrow in which blood cells multiply, according to the company. The military envisions a "fieldable" in-theater, culture-manufacturing system that would take hematopoietic progenitor cells and automatically covert those into hundreds of prepackaged, ready-to-be-infused RBC units. This process, called "blood pharming," would eliminate much of storage, transport and the donor blood type and health limitations that make RBC resupply such a challenge. More at CNET... Project presentation (.pdf)... Arteriocyte ...