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Ageing Blood for Organ Transplants

November 21, 2023 | | Posted in Newsletter

Extended RBC storage linked to reduced risk of transplant failure in kidney transplant recipients
“In this study, longer RBC storage duration [MORE]

Blood Protein for Treating Ischemic Stroke

January 10, 2023 | | Posted in Newsletter

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Ischemic stroke
rom researchers at the University of Oslo: “we hypothesized that FSAP [Factor VII activating protease] can be used as [MORE]

Lab-Grown Red Blood Cells in Clinical Trial

January 3, 2023 | | Posted in Newsletter

Microscopic image of lab-grown RBC
From the National Health Service, UK: “Red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory [MORE]

Saline + Albumin in Diluted Plasma Reverses Aging in Mice

August 11, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Mice grew significantly more new muscle fibers, shown as pink “donut” shapes
From bioengineers at the University of California Berkeley:  “using [MORE]

Ultrasound Method to Dry Blood

June 23, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Freeze-dried Blood
Ultrasound, in a process called sonoporation, can deliver molecules across a plama membrane, such as that surrounding a red [MORE]

Turbulence Propels Stem Cells into Platelets

October 2, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

Transfusion Medicine—Opportunities?

March 20, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Blood Transfusion
Many of our readers are opportunity-minded, i.e. innovators looking for something to make better. And, there’s hardly a medical [MORE]

Thawing Frozen Blood in 3 Minutes

February 24, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Microfluidic Device for Thawing Blood
Red blood cells stored for transfusion are rarely frozen because they take too long to thaw [MORE]

Lab-Grown Blood Moving Toward Clinical Trials

June 24, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

O-Negative Blood
Sometime in 2016, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service expects to begin clinical trials of lab-grown Type O-negative [MORE]

Reducing Oxidative Stress in Transfused Blood

February 25, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Hemanext
Blood banking is big business in healthcare, and one of its challenges is maintaining donated blood’s shelf life.  The FDA [MORE]

New Blood Types

April 10, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Blood Typer
How many blood types exist?  There’s the ABO group, and Rhesus +/-; then, Duffy, Kidd, Diego and Lutheran, [MORE]

Blood Management Programs

August 16, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Blood Transfusion
US healthcare uses about 14 million units of blood annually, which the Department of Health and Human Services [MORE]

Testing Quality in Stored Blood

June 28, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Blood banks store blood for up to 42 days, but studies in England show that transfused blood older than [MORE]