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Thanks! Your comments are encouraging. [1,2]: Most people don't have antibodies, so big K+ blood is fine for most people (we worry about avoiding transfusing big-K positive blood i…

The number of circulating CD34+ cells varies by individual, and by age. I volunteered for an unstimulated collection when we were validating the process of stem cell collection at …

Plasma undergoes extensive processing that inactivates many viruses that would not be inactivated by current blood processing. See https://www.pptaglobal.org/safety-quality/pathoge…

Some can and do, but there are some challenges for it being a general solution: - Some people don't know they need rare blood (because they didn't have the antibody at first, then …

> so they either need to take on the financial burden of flying to wherever their blood is needed or refusing to take on the financial burden and knowingly allowing someone to die.…

I would love to see more donor centers allow hemochromatosis patients to donate. I think there is not actually regulatory ban. Last I looked into this, it was because of the confli…

That's right, and I have taught that point to trainees. However, there is a subtlety and I am sharing it as penance for having taught incorrectly: The FDA does allows blood donatio…

Ask and ye shall receive! To answer [1] Why?: it's complicated. There are more than 35 red blood cell groups (see https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/blood-typ... fo…

Right idea, but I think maybe you may have used the wrong word. The donation is to get antibodies. Antigens are are the stimulus that causes the body to form antibodies. We give th…

TIL: I'm old.

I have a copy of the book… I would be happy to sell it for US$1 million. That's like 95% off!

Hi! This is interesting and I plan to use it for work. Today. In answer to my above inquiry: It looks to me like this section causes consecutive 'v's to be interpreted as text; it …

In the section on Line Ends, https://code.sgo.to/typograms/ shows a box surrounded by arrows and a dot surrounded by arrows. The arrows that point down (down and left, down, and do…

Like Charlie's wife in the Kingston Trio song about the MTA...

> "can get the ax" We see what you did there.

I think this is really cool and I would be interested in a set of cards - I emailed the address listed on the page.

Love love love me a Graphgear 1000, I keep buying them so I can have one in every car, one in every desk, one in workbench, one in my pockets - bought three for my daughter for Chr…

Looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while - that's a shame, it was fun to learn from new posts. I guess my failing to notice that it wasn't updated for 5+ years may correl…

+1 for obscure references

I remember a version of this happening with PDFs

Did anybody else find the changing tab title annoying?

We had a legitimate Michael Hunt at our school. He went by Mike.

your post didn't specify infinite... ;)

Maybe it would be more clear to state that there are areas of Navajo lands with very few trees. We drove through Navajo land twice in the last week, and there were several trees. S…