Fast Company: Taiga Biotechnologies may wipe out blood banks as we know them. The Aurora, Colorado-based startup has developed and licensed stem-cell technologies that can grow an almost limitless supply of red blood cells. If they work (and it’s looking likely) the technologies could be used to provide blood where it’s needed the most—ambulances and […]
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Fast Company: Ben Bowman’s Minneapolis office, in a renovated brick warehouse, is steps from the Mississippi River. But his mind is on a different circulatory system: blood. As usual, he’s thinking about waste-1.3 million pints spoil, he claims, and get tossed every year in the U.S.-and about archaic distribution. “Can the market really be this
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Humans Invent: All-purpose healing gels familiar to fans of futuristic video games and movies could be about to make the transition from sci-fi fantasy to real-world medical tool thanks to a New York University student who has invented a gel that can instantly halt bleeding in even the most serious of wounds. Veti-Gel, the name
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