【SIT Lab Vol.26】Engineered blood circulation. Visualize the health of red blood cells.

“SIT Lab” is a channel that introduces laboratories at Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan), which has diverse research fields.
In the 26th lecture, Professor Nobuo Watanabe, Department of Bioscience and Engineering, Faculty of Systems Engineering and Science, will talk about a research on engineering the blood circulation and visualizing red blood cell health.

Department of Bioscience and Engineering
https://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/en/acad...

Life Science Laboratory（SIT official website）
https://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/en/rese...

research profile
https://shibaura.pure.elsevier.com/en...

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00:00 Opening
00:17 Visualizing Blood Circulation
00:40 Successful observation of red blood cells in blood flow simulating inside a blood pump
00:55 Actual observation
01:32 Reproducing the state of blood circulation in the experimental apparatus
02:00 Quantifying and graphing the shape contours of red blood cells
02:34 NO (nitric oxide) production reaction of red blood cells
03:10 Contributing to the development of medicine through mechanical engineering