09-09-11, 01:59 PM
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Lucky Jack 
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Originally Posted by Growler
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.
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I know about the plasma and certrifuge from college. I would sell my plasma to a lab and this is how it was done. I got beer money for it.
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