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Editor's note
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This week we’ve been taking a special look at blood, with some help from the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. From blood-borne viruses, diagnosing illness from blood
and the various components of blood and what they do,
we also charted the history of blood transfusions in this simple infographic (those poor chickens!), and followed the journey of blood from donor to needy recipient in this video.
We hope you’re having a great weekend, and here’s to blood: the fluid that gives us life.
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Alexandra Hansen
Section Editor, Health and Medicine
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Top story
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We know blood is vital for life, do we know why?
Illuminations: Blood Equality by Jordan Eagles (USA) Image credit: David Meanix and courtesy of artist as part of Science Gallery Melbourne’s BLOOD exhibition
David Irving, University of Technology Sydney
Everything you never knew about the red stuff in your veins.
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Blood: special series
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Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation; Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Steven Phillips, The Conversation
Here we look at how blood transfusions started as an experiment four centuries ago, and became the modern-day life saver they are.
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Robert Flower, University of Sydney
Why do we have blood groups and how are they discovered?
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David Griffin, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity; Thomas Schulz, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Why is it only some viruses are transmissible by blood, and how does the virus actually move from person to person?
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Denese Marks, University of Sydney
Blood transports nutrients, hormones, proteins, vitamins and minerals around our body.
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Maher Gandhi, The University of Queensland; Huyen Tran, Monash University
An overview of the most common problems in our blood: bleeding disorders, clotting disorders and cancer.
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Karen Dwyer, Deakin University
Blood is perhaps the most important window through which we can peer into a person's health or illness.
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