POSTS TAGGED AS platelets

New Material Stops Bleeding in People Taking Blood Thinners

Bioengineered material developed to rapidly stop bleeding in patients on blood thinners
“To improve strategies for reducing blood loss, a team [MORE]

Platelets in a Cytokine Storm

Platelets fuel inflammasome activation
Platelets are necessary blood cells that staunch bleeding, but according to researchers at the University of Bonn, [MORE]

Identifying Different Types of Blood Clots

Classification of platelet aggregates by agonist type
In another platelet report—this one describing work Japanese and Chinese biochemists have done in [MORE]

Turbulence Propels Stem Cells into Platelets

Turbulence activates platelets
In this case, the “martini” is both shaken and stirred.  Japanese stem cell scientists that “turbulence” in a [MORE]

Clot-Busting Nanodevice

Blood Clot
Ever wonder why an announcement for a new drug or device often says that it may take another five [MORE]

Bone Marrow Bioreactor

Platelet Bioreactor
With a “bone-marrow-on-a-chip” bioreactor, researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been able to culture blood platelets, [MORE]

Microchip Bioreactor for Synthesizing Blood Platelets

Platelet BioGenesis
While research into artificial blood continues, a Boston company, Platelet BioGenesis, is developing a microfluidics bioreactor that can [MORE]

Synthesizing Blood Platelets

Artist Rendering of Artifiical Platelets
Bioengineers at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Scripps Research Institute and the Sanford-Burnham Institute [MORE]