Transfusion Medicine in the Era of Genomics and Proteomics

Viewing recent trends in transfusion medicine (TM), the authors make predictions about possible future developments within this specialty including greater cost-effectiveness and blood safety resulting from increased automation; techniques in genetics replacing serological typing in many standard assays; and TM service playing a major R&D role together with clinical services in the emerging cell-based therapeutics. To achieve this, the TM …