March 23, 2016 at 10:44 pm
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
Each year, more than 5 million people require blood transfusions due to illness, surgery or serious injury. There is no manufactured alternative to human blood so the blood collected from donors is the only supply available to patients in need,...
July 15, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Published by Stanford Blood Center
By Billie Rubin
Cryoprecipitate is a blood product made from frozen plasma. The plasma is slowly thawed, then sent through a centrifuge, a machine that spins and sorts blood components based on their masses. The "cold precipitate" protein that is left behind after most of the liquid plasma is removed is the cryoprecipitate.