Blood Banking in Living Droplets
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Author(s)
Samot, Josh
Moon, Sangjun
Shao, Lei
Zhang, Xiaohui
Xu, Feng
YoungSeok, Song
Hasan, Onur Keles
Matloff, Laura
Markel, Jordan
Demirci, Utkan
Date Issued
March 2011
Journal
PLoS ONE
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Public Library of Science
Citation
Samot, Josh et al. “Blood Banking in Living Droplets.” Ed. Christophe Egles. PLoS ONE 6.3 (2011) : e17530.
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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.
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Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017530
