ResusNation #161

Haney's Welcome (Click image below) Why Menstrual Blood is Liquid Gold For decades, we’ve been extracting adult stem cells the hard way—jamming Jamshidi needles into the iliac crest or performing surgical biopsies like we’re mining for coal. Meanwhile, half the population has been casually shedding multipotent mesenchymal stem cells every 28 days. About 20 years ago, biologist Caroline Gar...

CRISPR Just Made Pork the New O-Negative It’s 2 A.M., you’re running on two hours of terrible sleep and a warm Celsius from the breakroom, and your phone buzzes with a kidney offer. You answer, praying for a pristine organ, but instead, you get pitched a scarred, sub-optimal graft from a 68-year-old with poorly managed hypertension because the current transplant waitlist is a dystopian ni...

Haney's Welcome (Click image below) Proof That Doctors Sometimes Just Made Stuff Up Before Karl Landsteiner figured out blood types in 1901 and saved us all from playing biological roulette, 19th-century medicine was basically just vibes and wild guesses. Faced with patients bleeding out and no real way to bank blood without it coagulating into a gelatinous mess, some physicians decided th...