An engineering team from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio has developed platelet-like nanoparticles that show considerable promise. Reassuring news, considering falling platelet levels are a common trigger for CLL treatment and platelet transfusions (the only way we can boost them now), need to be repeated weekly until your body can make enough on its own...
Gizmag Article:
gizmag.com/platelet-like-na...
Paper:
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102...
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