Blood Banking in Living Droplets
| Title: | Blood Banking in Living Droplets |
| Author: |
Samot, Josh; Moon, Sangjun; Shao, Lei; Zhang, Xiaohui; Xu, Feng; Song, YoungSeok; Keles, Hasan Onur; Matloff, Laura; Markel, Jordan; Demirci, Utkan
Note: Order does not necessarily reflect citation order of authors. |
| Citation: | Samot, Josh, Sangjun Moon, Lei Shao, Xiaohui Zhang, Feng Xu, YoungSeok Song, Hasan Onur Keles, Laura Matloff, Jordan Markel, and Utkan Demirci. 2011. Blood banking in living droplets. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17530. |
| Full Text & Related Files: |
3055869.pdf (393.6Kb; PDF) 
|
| 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. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017530 |
| Other Sources: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055869/pdf/ |
| Terms of Use: | This article is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of-use#LAA |
| Citable link to this page: | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5978721 |
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
-
HMS Scholarly Articles [4024]
Contact administrator regarding this item (to report mistakes or request changes)
