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Susan Grier is a medical laboratory technologist in a hospital transfusion service. She works the night shift crossmatching blood units for patients and brings years of bench experience from core diagnostic laboratories. A contributor to Biology Insights, Grier tends an extensive indoor plant collection at home.

What Is Erythropoiesis? The Process of Making Red Blood Cells
How Long Are Platelets Good For? In the Body & Storage
How Much of the Wrong Blood Type Will Kill You?
What Is Hemostasis? The Body’s Process to Stop Bleeding
What Disease Does T-Boz Have? A Look at Sickle Cell Anemia
What Type of Antigens Are Present in Type O Blood?
How Long Does It Take to Reproduce Blood?
Where Does Plasma Go In the Body and After Donation?
What Is the Role of Hemoglobin in Red Blood Cells?
What Are Blood Fractions and Their Medical Uses?
Why Is Blood Type O Considered a Universal Donor?
Why Are Individuals With Blood Type AB Universal Recipients?
How Does Plasma Save Lives? From Clotting to Immunity
How Long Does It Take the Body to Replace Blood?
What Is a Platelet Plug and How Does It Stop Bleeding?
What Is the Clotting Cascade and How Does It Work?
Why Does Blood Smell Like Pennies?
Is 4 Pints of Blood a Lot? What Happens When You Lose It
Does Your Body Replace Blood? The Biological Process
What Does It Mean When Your Blood Is Black?
How Long Does It Take for Your Body to Regenerate Blood?
How Fast Do You Make Blood? The Body’s Production Cycle
When You Lose Blood, How Is It Replaced?
Is There Artificial Blood? The Status of Blood Substitutes
Why Is Blood Sticky? The Science of Plasma and Clotting
Blutgerinnung: Wie sie funktioniert und was sie beeinflusst
The Dissolution of a Clot: How the Body and Medicine Do It
What Are Universal Donors and Universal Recipients?
Why Does My Blood Look Black? A Scientific Explanation
Why Can O Negative Only Receive O Negative?