Artificial Blood Experiment is a Transylvanian Triumph in Science

The legend of Dracula has long been synonymous with Transylvania, so it's appropriate that the first-ever successful artificial-blood experiment comes from Cluj-Napoca, a city in the infamous Romanian province.

After six years of experimentation on mice, Romanian researcher Dr. Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu and his team found that their blood formula had no harmful side effects. Now they hope to test it on human subjects in the next few years, according to Medical Daily. 

Unlike other experiments, the blood is produced using hemerythrin, a protein extracted from sea worms, and mixed with water and salts. Hemerythrin transports oxygen in the blood of marine invertebrates, while previous artificial-bloods tests relied on hemoglobin, a red protein that transfers oxygen in the blood of almost all living organisms Read more...