“Blood, it’s in you to give”. So proclaims in a recruitment campaign by the Canadian Blood Services, hoping to encourage more Canadians to donate [1]. Undoubtedly, blood plays an eminent role in the normal function of all systems in the body. And in modern medicine, blood is used as a therapeutic modality in procedures such as surgeries, cancer treatments, and transplants. However, with an aging population, more of these procedures will be performed. This is why the demand for blood in Canadian hospitals increases by 8% [1]. But what is blood? What is exactly in blood that make them so…
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Benjamin Lai is a MSc student in the Department of Pathology in UBC and is currently stationed at the Life Science Institute on campus. When he is not in the lab, he enjoys... His interests include... Um, let`s just say he has a life of some sort outside the lab (or at least he thinks he does).