| Publication Type |
honors thesis |
| School or College |
College of Engineering |
| Department |
Biomedical Engineering |
| Faculty Mentor |
Tara Deans |
| Creator |
Davidson, Olivia |
| Title |
Utilizing synthetic biology to improve platelet transfusion outcomes |
| Year graduated |
2016 |
| Date |
2016-05 |
| Description |
Platelets are essential to blood clotting. Due to a high risk of bacterial infection, donor platelets have short shelf -lives. As a result, being able to maintain a constant supply of platelets in vitro would be clinically valuable. This could be accomplished by using synthetic biology to guide stem cell differentiation into the cell type responsible for producing platelets. Synthetic biology potentially gives us the tools necessary to control this process. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Subject |
Blood platelets - Transfusion - Research; Stem cells - Therapeutic use; Synthetic biology; Hematopoietic stem cells; Erthropoientin |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights Management |
(c) Olivia Davidson |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
25,049 bytes |
| Identifier |
honors/id/39 |
| Permissions Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1253941 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6jq4973 |
| Setname |
ir_htoa |
| ID |
205691 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jq4973 |
