research blog

One of today’s potential treatments for COVID-19 has its origins in the 19th century, when Nobel Prize winner Emil Von Behring  discovered that serum from infected animals offered protection from disease.

Blood is like milk, not toilet paper. You can’t just buy a lot of it and save it for later – you need to have a regular, fresh supply for patients who need it.

At the moment, fewer Australians are donating blood than usual. To a degree, we can understand why.

It’s often said that no matter who we are, “we all bleed red”. But although our blood may be the same colour, we’re as individual on the inside as we are on the surface.