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 Careers in
Biomedicine  Fighting
Disease
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"In the future we’re
anticipating that blood banks will play a major role in the
delivery of gene therapy and other kinds of what we call
cellular therapies – cancer vaccines, vaccines for patients who
may already be infected with HIV or hepatitis - that are able to
help eliminate those infections by infusing into those patients
another person’s cells that have been primed to kill off
infected cells." |
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Blood research is critically
dependent on advances in technology. Blood centers use the
most modern molecular biology methods to, to study viruses, to
build new tests, and to develop new recombinant DNA types of
blood components. |
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