Background: Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention for millions of recipients
worldwide. Over the last 15 years, the advent of high-throughput, affordable omics …

Banking with precision: transfusion medicine as a potential... : Current Opinion in
Hematology Banking with precision: transfusion medicine as a potential universal …

Transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) is one of the most valuable and widespread
treatments in modern medicine. Lifesaving RBC transfusions are facilitated by the cold …

Over the last decade, the introduction of omics technologies–especially high-throughput
genomics and metabolomics–has contributed significantly to our understanding of the role of …

Biochemical investigations on the regulatory mechanisms of red blood cell (RBC) and
platelet (PLT) metabolism have fostered a century of advances in the field of transfusion …

Red blood cells (RBCs) are abundant (more than 80% of the total cells in the human body),
yet relatively simple, as they lack nuclei and organelles, including mitochondria. Since the …

A great deal of interest has been attracted by backof-the-envelope calculations suggesting
that bacterial cells (recently revised to be~ 3.9× 1013) outnumber the total number of host …

During storage, RBCs undergo various metabolic, structural and morphological changes,
the so-called storage lesions1. The acceptable extent of the metabolic changes forms a …

Blood transfusion is a medical intervention practised throughout the world. Blood is a
biologically active material that can transmit diseases (eg, HIV/AIDS and, perhaps, v CJD) …

Abstract Background State of the Science (SoS) meetings are used to define and highlight
important unanswered scientific questions. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute …