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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
This is how plasma is separated for the platelets I believe.
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I think so, as well - from the way it was described, different elements in the blood settle out at different centrifugal speeds - for instance, my white blood cells would be spun out first, for intravenous delivery to her; three days later, they'd hook me up again and spin out stem cells (after a self-administered treatment program with a drug called
Neupogen that targeted the release of stem cells ("granulocytes") into the bloodstream.)
It was a modification of a treatment developed at Hopkins here in Baltimore, and has, apparently, been used to cure the
Berlin Patient of both his leukemia and HIV.