Our team has partnered with Terumo, a global leader in blood component technologies, to maximize plasma yields from their new Rika Plasma Donation System. We developed a motor-integrated base that ...

For thousands of Americans, donating plasma is a lifeline. In the 90 minutes it takes to donate, they make five times the federal minimum wage. Americans supply two-thirds of the world's blood plasma.

A Wuhan-based biopharmaceutical company developed technology to synthesize human serum albumin (HSA) from rice, offering a potential solution to China's supply shortage of this critical blood protein.

Plasma is a straw-coloured liquid that makes ... That’s is the same amount of liquid as there is in these cola bottles! Blood travels around the body in tubes called arteries, veins or ...

From the blood plasma they also isolated tiny spherical structures called exosomes, which are found in the spaces surrounding cells and are important in cell-to-cell communication—they may also ...

Over the past two years, blood donors in Bedfordshire have provided around 5,000 litres of plasma in total, enough to make around 2,000 bottles of immunoglobulin, and enough to save or improve ...

Over the past three years, blood donors in Lincolnshire have supplied around 6,100 litres of plasma, enough to make around 2,700 bottles of immunoglobulin, which is enough to save or improve ...

To separate plasma from blood cells, the team used centrifuging (separation of blood components by density) and sedimentation (separation of particles from a liquid). The plasma was then pooled from a ...

WE have previously demonstrated that plasma clots and whole blood clots are very resistant to the action of trypsin and α-chymotrypsin in saline but can be lysed by solutions of trypsin and α ...

Private Roy W. Humphrey is being given blood plasma after he was wounded by shrapnel in Sicily in August 1943. Wikimedia Commons Most fatalities in World War I occurred not from the direct ...

Now, research published in ACS Central Science reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular profiles in blood plasma that could indicate the presence of certain common ...