• Question: could fake platelets ever be used to help clotting?

    Asked by jessica2 to Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 27 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      This is definitely a possibility

      A lot of research is ongoing to manufacture a synthetic blood substitute to use for transfusions etc, so I guess the same sort of approach could perhaps one day be used specifically for platelets

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