A first-of-its-kind clinical trial shows that therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) combined with intravenous immunoglobulin ...

Please bleed more, I thought, looking at my pricked finger. A drop of blood dangled at its tip, not quite big enough to fall. I needed enough blood to fill a small circle outlined on a piece of paper.

Plasma therapy is one of several different experimental longevity procedures that involve blood transfers, including platelet ...

At last, the stage was set for lifesaving blood transfusions. No more lambs’ or calves’ blood; no more transfusions from ...

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To directly detect biomarkers in whole blood, however, they need to be assembled with a filter such as a plasma separation membrane (PSM) because the color of the blood cells interferes with the ...

Irradiation by electron beam is an example of such new sterilization means. This paper describes a new sterilization technique which has recently been developed at the Plasma Science Laboratory of the ...