Plastic Red Blood Cells

Health & Medicine - 2008

Plastic Red Blood Cells

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Joseph DeSimone, a chemical engineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has created tiny sacks of the polymer polyethylene glycol just 8 micrometres across – in the range of human red blood cells – that are capable of deforming in a way that allows them to pass through the tiniest capillaries.

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