Blood Clotting in the Absence of Platelets (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science

Blood Clotting in the Absence of Platelets

Caption

In these microscopic close-ups, samples of red blood cells aggregate from left to right, becoming more compact despite the absence of platelets, long thought essential to clotting.

Credit

Rustem Litvinov

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