Drones Work Well for Transporting Blood Samples, Study Finds

Doctors usually want to run tests on blood samples as quickly as possible, before they start to degrade. As it turns out, such a practice may not be necessary. Scientists conducting experiments with a small drone have found that blood samples remained fresh after being airborne for 40 minutes. The possibility that biological samples could be transported safely from remote areas in Africa and other countries to state-of-the-art laboratories for testing is good news, said Timothy Amukele, a...

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