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November 30, 1999
Spiegel Named
Grantees Win 'America's Nobels,' Lasker Awards
NIDDK Director Gorden Steps Down, Returns to Laboratory
New NIH Travel Management Center Contract Announced
Renovation Limits Food Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
New Procedure Doubles Usefulness of Blood Donation
By Rich McManus Photos by Ernie Branson
 When you lie down to give your pint of blood at the Clinical Center Blood Bank, it's almost taboo to think that not all of what you're giving is essential. Fact is, however, that the department of transfusion medicine (DTM) needs mainly the packed red cells; the plasma is, in many cases, discarded or frozen for eventual reuse. To address this skewed economy, the Blood Bank now offers a "double red cell" procedure that allows a donor — in slightly more time than regular blood donation — to give twice the volume of packed red cells than in a normal donation, and get back his or her plasma and platelets, along with enough saline solution to restore the volume of red cells lost, usually in the range of 360-400 milliliters. M O R E . . . NIH Group Selected to Decode Mouse Genome By Cathy Yarbrough
Twenty-five NIH employees working in Gaithersburg have received
a strong endorsement by a review committee of top scientists in the
burgeoning field of genomics. The employees — scientists
and staff at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
(NISC) — were recently notified that NISC was designated a
member of NIH's new Mouse Genome Sequencing Network. The
network of 10 sequencing centers across the United States will
decipher the genetic makeup (or genome) of the mouse, one of the
most frequently used mammals in medical and behavioral research.
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