A key diagnostic step in disease detection is analyzing blood components. Accurate separation of blood cells from plasma, which holds proteins and other constituents, is crucial in many assays. First ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fresenius Kabi LLC has issued a recall of red blood cell exchange sets used on AS104 blood cell separation ...

A physicist in the US has proposed a new way to separate red and white blood cells using a magnetic field. The method, which has not yet been proven in the laboratory, exploits the fact that white and ...

Red cells are transfused to treat clinically significant anemia or blood loss. They are produced by removing the majority of plasma from whole blood by centrifugation (Figure 2). Red cells produced ...

Even as dengue has caused widespread panic and fueled the demand for blood components like platelets, only three state run hospitals - LTMG Hospital, Sion, KEM and JJ Hospital have the licence to run ...

Transfusion Alter Transfusion Med. 2008;10(3):92-101. The initial storage temperature of whole blood determines which components can be produced from it (Figure 1). Because platelet function rapidly ...