text:  You know, one lab was very worried that this would like dirty up their machines or ruin their machines and stuff like that. We were starting from ground zero. The team realized that in order to truly achieve what they set out to, they need to have full control over their own space. And so they ended up building their own lab. Through her research, Naseri was able to finally answer the question once and for all that period blood is, in fact, real blood.