re: Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities

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Absolutely ! Trial and error is the most fundamental method of problem solving. We'll get there !

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More "errors" need to be published.

There is tremendous waste (time, money, hard resources) in research redundancy because "failed" projects are not published/presented (outside of drug trials).

I was working on HBOC (hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier), and our lab was one of 5 in the US working on it at the time (at least that I was aware of). There was almost zero communication among the groups.

In impromptu informal conversations at different national meetings and conferences, I'd talk to other researches at these different institutions. I say something like "we tried X, Y, and Z to try to normalize the oxygen dissociation curve, but it didn't work" and I'd get responses like "oh yeah, we tried X and Z too...no luck".

So you have 2 separate labs sinking hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in duplicated projects