Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Cellphirc, Inc

Keith A Moskowitz

Craig A Gelfand

Bradley M Wilkinson

Robert G Ellis

Raymond T Wasek

Kenneth Louis Lee

Jean-Bernard Alla

Robert Ellis

Raymond Wasek

Daniel J Marchiarullo

David G Ho

Cindy S Orser

Alan Rudolph

Joshua Dee

A specimen collection container having a separation chamber includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a valve located between the first chamber and the second chamber. In an open position, the valve permits fluid communication between the first chamber and the second chamber. In a closed position, the valve maintains fluid isolation between the first chamber and the second chamber. A fluid stream passes from the first chamber to the second chamber through the valve permitting a predetermined volume of fluid to pass from the first chamber to the second chamber. When the predetermined volume of fluid passes to the second chamber, the valve transitions from the open position to the closed position so that additional fluid of the fluid stream received by the first chamber is maintained in the first chamber in fluid isolation from the predetermined volume of fluid contained in the second chamber.

Specimen collection container having a fluid separation chamber

Disclosed are devices for collecting and stabilizing blood that contain a blood stabilization agent which includes variegin or an analog thereof, a polysulfated disaccharide, or a combination thereof, each in an amount effective to stabilize blood. Methods of making and using the devices, and kits containing the devices, are also provided.

Blood collection devices containing blood stabilization agent including variegin or analog thereof and/or a polysulfated disaccharide

The present invention provides processes for preparing freeze-dried platelets, freeze-dried platelets made by those processes, platelets reconstituted from those freeze-dried platelets, methods of using the platelets for therapeutic, diagnostic, and research purposes, and kits comprising the freeze-dried platelets.

Methods for preparing freeze-dried platelets, compositions comprising freeze-dried platelets, and methods of use

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Monroe, NY, United States of America

Keith A Moskowitz