Hospital and Medical News

November 20, 2013

On-Demand Transfusions Could Yield Novel Therapeutics Delivery
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2013
Red blood cells are the most transfused blood product in battlefield trauma care. Unfortunately, they are sometimes in limited supply in a battlefield environment. DARPA created its Blood Pharming program to potentially relieve this shortage by developing an automated culture and packaging system that would yield a fresh supply of transfusable red blood cells from readily available cell sources. If the program is successful, it will eliminate the existing drawbacks of laboratory grown red blood ce ... read more

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