11 September 2017 (Monday) - Sample Transport


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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