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Blood Is Thicker Than Water -- and Blood Plasma Is, Too

Caption: This video is from the article, "Rheology of human blood plasma: Viscoelastic versus Newtonian behavior."

Credit: M. Brust, C. Schaefer, R. Doerr, L. Pan, M. Garcia, P. E. Arratia, and C. Wagner (2013): "Rheology of human blood plasma: Viscoelastic versus Newtonian behavior", Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 078305 (2013) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.078305 http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.078305

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