Blood banking in living droplets.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 21412411.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0017530 and PMC identifier 3055869.
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Abstract
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 vitrify red blood cells in microdroplets. This approach enables the vitrification of large volumes of blood in a short amount of time, and makes it a viable and scalable biotechnology tool for blood cryopreservation.
Medical subject headings
- Blood Banks
- Microfluidics