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Thursday, June 19, 2025 76° Today's Paper Business Bone marrow, cell collection to begin again ...
Daniel Cressy yawned, tired after three days of watching a machine pull blood out of his body, extract his stem cells and ...
Daniel Cressy hopes to use a breakthrough treatment to cure his sickle cell disease, which will make him the first person in the state of Louisiana to do so. Should his wish come true, he might be ...
ViaCord pricing starts at $710 for cord blood processing, plus $185 per year for storage at the time of publishing. Pricing depends on which type of stem cells you want to store — cord blood ...
The plastic blood collection tube, which includes a proprietary sample stabilization additive and BD Vacutainer® Hemogard™ technology to help protect healthcare worker safety, was designed to ensure ...
In partnership with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity, Hemerus Medical LLC received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the New Drug Application for its SOLX® System ...
Cell and gene therapies involve the transfer of new cells or genetic material to treat disease. They represent some of the most promising innovations in modern healthcare – offering new options for ...
The blood sample should be centrifuged immediately and the plasma removed from the blood cells. It is common to use microtainer collection tubes of lithium heparin, which contain plasma separators.
SEATTLE — In a remarkable act of selflessness, a young healthcare worker from California has become the 1,000th donor to contribute life-saving blood stem cells to a patient battling blood ...
Cells from frozen human blood samples can be reprogrammed to an embryonic stem-cell-like state, according to new research. These cells can be multiplied and used to study the genetic and molecular ...
It's called double red blood cell collection, or apheresis, and it allows donors to give two red blood cell units instead of just one. Traditionally, a nurse sticks a needle connected to a tube in ...
Donating blood in SouthCoast just got easier, safer and more efficient. The Southcoast Blood Bank at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford recently unveiled a new Double Red Blood Cell Collection ...