Due to a shortage of blood, I donated some today at the local Red Cross.
With all the advances in medicine, is anyone working on creating synthetic blood?
not quite synthetic.
We should all pay tribute to Philip Palmquist, 3M inventor, who died this past December at age 88.
Among his inventions was the fake blood used in Hollywood movies. So he probably made possible the whole genre of horror pics!
He was given an award in 1972 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in recognition of his contribution to the field.
See here
for his obituary.
Though it may not be immediately obvious, blood is quite a complex substance.