Engineering’s Anirban Sen Gupta advances synthetic platelets for battlefield bleeding emergencies

The US military’s race to make fake blood

MIT Technology Review: Anirban Sen Gupta, the Wallace R. Persons Professor in the Case School of Engineering, said his team’s synthetic platelets, designed to mimic natural platelets and reduce bleeding, cut bleeding time and blood loss by more than half in mice. His SynthoPlate technology is part of a $73 million DARPA effort to develop shelf-stable synthetic blood products for battlefield emergencies by 2029.