Synthetic platelets that will aid in reducing external and internal bleeding that is often fatal have been developed by US scientists.
The team led by Erin Lavik, a Case Western Reserve University biomedical engineering professor and her former doctoral student, James P. Bertram achieved the feat.
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Lavik said: "The military has been phenomenal at developing technology to halt bleeding, but the technology has been effective only on external or compressible injuries.... This could be a compliment to current therapies."
Bertram and Lavik used biodegradable polymers to make synthetic platelets. These have been designed to bond with natural platelets at the site of an injury.
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The blood group of a person is determined by the presence or absence of certain inherited antigenic substances and certain acquired antibodies in blood.
The blood group of a person is determined by the presence or absence of certain inherited antigenic substances and certain acquired antibodies in blood.
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