Modern efforts to produce artificial blood were spurred on by the military in World Wars I and II and,more recently,by the discovery in the early 1980s that HIV could be transmitted by blood transfusion.

• 在第一次世界大战和第二次世界大战以及最近的20世纪80年代发现HIV(人类免疫缺陷病毒)能够通过输血传播的驱动下，开始了现代生产人造血液的努力。