Oct 6, 2017
Scientists Are Racing to Create Synthetic Blood in the Wake of Mass Tragedies | VICE.com The Las Vegas shooting is the latest reminder that human blood isn’t enough for massive, unexpected transfusions. Ankita Rao In the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting...
Oct 3, 2017
Bioengineering: Doing without donors | Nature Featured in NATURE 28 SEPTEMBER 2017 | VOL 549 | NATURE Each year, at about 13,000 collection centres worldwide, phlebotomists stick needles in the veins of healthy volunteers and amass in excess of 110 million donations...
May 16, 2017
Battlefield to Bedside | Washington University School of Medicine Magazine High-intensity military medicine spurs innovations for civilians, too. By Rebecca Boyle In a war zone in Afghanistan, a roadside bomb explodes and shrapnel tears through a U.S. soldier. The...
Apr 5, 2017
Medical researchers have made a lot of progress developing artificial versions of organs like the heart, lungs and kidneys, but one thing has stumped them: artificial blood. Blood is especially hard to recreate because it does so many things, from carrying oxygen to...
Feb 27, 2017
When red blood cells are poured into the test tubes here in Dr. Allan Doctor’s lab, tiny tools measure the reaction of the rabbit aortas strung up inside, computing if and how strongly the aortas constrict. Doctor and his team are trying to make sure that when they...
Jan 19, 2017
The Long Quest To Create Artificial Blood May Soon Be Over | NBC News.com Blood, blood everywhere — but not a drop when you need it. In the U.S. alone, there are around 17,000 preventable trauma deaths each year due to untreated hemorrhagic shock. Basically, that...
