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The development of a new blood substitute

The first transfusion ever performed is generally attributed to James Blundell in the beginning of the eighteenth century. Since Blundell’s experiments until the beginning of the twentieth century, transfusion was considered an extremely risked procedure with general

Gelatin composites for controlled release of actives

During the 1950s the pharmaceutical market was flooded with oral products promising a prolonged release of actives. Since then a constantly growing effort has been devoted to the design of materials and formulations able to spatially and