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 ...

Platelets are small, non-nucleated cells that are derived from megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. Platelets circulate in the blood, sense damage to a blood vessel and accumulate at these sites, where ...