Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor to generate fully functional human platelets in vitro. The work is a maj... Read more
“Patients feel better about getting their own blood, and recycling is also more cost effective.” Patients whose own red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart sur... Read more
Wellcome Trust-funded stem cell research has produced red blood cells fit for transfusion into humans, paving the way for the mass production of blood It is the stuff of gothic science ficti... Read more
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed an unprecedented approach to restore nitric oxide (NO) to donated blood, a breakthrough that could dramatic... Read more
The new technology is a huge breakthrough for the field of autotransfusion for cardiac surgery. The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, has developed a pioneering surgical blood salvage tech... Read more
