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Freeze-Dried Platelets Could Be the First Drug to Treat Brain Swelling After Traumatic Injury

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The blood-brain barrier is one of the body’s more elegant feats of engineering. A continuous sheath of specialized cells lining the brain’s tiny vessels, it keeps circulating blood (along with anything dissolved in it) out of neural tissue, while allowing oxygen and glucose to pass freely through. For most of your life, the system works without drama. Then a car hits you. Or you fall. Or a blast wave moves through the air faster than you can perceive it. Within hours, sometimes withi

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