Research has proven frozen blood platelets are safe and effective for use in critically injured patients—a breakthrough dramatically extending their shelf life for transfusions from one week to two ...

The potential for a much longer shelf life means the life-saving treatment could be used in rural and remote areas as well as combat zones. Colleen Stieler-Hunt says blood platelets helped save her ...

Sepsis may progress into lethal septic shock, but the cellular mechanisms are still unclear. Here the authors show that, in septic mice, platelets activate perivascular mast cells to cause systemic ...