On a war-torn street of the future, an American soldier lies sprawled, unsure if a nearby blast has harmed him. Is there internal bleeding? He carries an injector containing artificial platelets, which will augment his body’s normal clotting mechanism and curtail any hemorrhaging. Yet the injection will be harmless if he has escaped injury. “You don’t want a soldier or medic to stress,” says Thomas Barker, a biomedical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. &ldq..
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