The
lablogatory people posted an interesting
article today:
“On a hot afternoon in late September 2016
the Johns Hopkins Medical Drones team drove to a flight field in the Arizona
desert with 40 vacutainer tubes filled with human blood obtained from
volunteers. The individually wrapped tubes sat in two custom-designed white
plastic cooler boxes which had wires coming out of one end, ventilation holes
at the other, and ran off the drone’s battery power. We carefully placed one of
the boxes on the drone, stood back, and flew the samples around for 260
kilometers in what seemed like an unending series of concentric circles...”
Drones…
I can remember watching “Nationwide”
(a news program in the 1970s) which
had blood samples being transported by carrier pigeons…
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