Timelapse of Clot Contracting, No Platelets Required (VIDEO)

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science

Caption

In this timelapse, a blood clot (in white) contracts, despite being engineered to have no platelets. 

Credit

Rustem Litvinov

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