It's still early days, but this technology is a hopeful step.
  • count_dongulus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    It is not expensive, assuming you don’t mind giving someone else your microplastics. In fact, you can get paid about $100 to do it in most places. How? Apharesis is exactly what is performed when donating plasma.

    • bloup@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Once the plasma is collected, I wonder if you can perform dialysis on it at an enormous scale to protect future recipients while still keeping things economical.

      • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        That would definitely be the way to do it, and with plasma you could mix individual donations into large batches for processing without worried about blood type