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Banking on Blood
“Blood connects us all” is the theme for the WHO's World Blood Donor Day, taking place on June 14, 2016. This event celebrates those who have saved lives through blood donation andmotivates healthy individuals who have yet to donate. Blood is an extraordinary tissue that performs a huge array of vital functions within the body. Red blood cells (RBCs) contain hemoglobin (Hb) that transports oxyg...
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Blood banking has a broad public health impact influencing millions of lives daily. It could potentially benefit from emerging biopreservation technologies. However, although vitrification has shown advantages over traditional cryopreservation techniques, it has not been incorporated into transfusion medicine mainly due to throughput challenges. Here, we present a scalable method that can vitri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1078-8956,1546-170X
DOI: 10.1038/nm0896-837b