Blood donation in Kyiv

Blood donation in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 14, 2024 - The pathogen reduction of platelets takes place during the Donate Blood - Save Life annual national charity campaign that promotes blood donorship and helps road accident victims during the second stage of the Road Safety Week, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.

Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese

STORY: Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese DATELINE: March 5, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:49 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Peter Mecoy 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin STORYLINE: Fifty-eight-year-old Peter Mecoy is an Australian expat living in north China's Tianjin. He has been volunteering to donate blood and platelets almost every 15 days since 2008. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin "In China, my blood type is called 'panda blood.' It's Type A RhD-negative blood. Maybe my blood can help mothers delivering babies or aged people in surgery. I am happy to be helpful." Peter has donated blood and platelets more than 270 times, equivalent to more than 420,000 milliliters of blood in terms of therapeutic vol

Kyoto Univ. facility for platelet mass production

Kyoto Univ. facility for platelet mass production

KYOTO, Japan - A clean room set up at Kyoto University Hospital's Clinical Research Center for Medical Equipment Development to produce large quantities of platelets for blood transfusions from induced pluripotent stem cells, also known as iPS cells, is shown to the media on March 17, 2014, a day before it officially begins operations.

Kyoto Univ. facility for platelet mass production

Kyoto Univ. facility for platelet mass production

KYOTO, Japan - A clean room set up at Kyoto University Hospital's Clinical Research Center for Medical Equipment Development to produce large quantities of platelets for blood transfusions from induced pluripotent stem cells, also known as iPS cells, is shown to the media on March 17, 2014, a day before it officially begins operations.

Kyoto Univ. professor Eto

Kyoto Univ. professor Eto

Photo taken in Feb. 28, 2017, in Kyoto, shows Kyoto University professor Koji Eto speaking about a plan to make platelets using iPS cells. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo