System, safety & Assam.
How the blood system works, safety rules, and donating in Assam.
21 guides
Artificial Oxygen Carriers: Can Anything Substitute for Red Cells?
Artificial blood alternatives: perfluorocarbons, haemoglobin-based carriers, freeze-dried plasma and enzyme-converted blood, and what they can't do.
Blood Banks in India: A Short History of Scandal, Reform and Progress
The history of blood banking in India: paid donors, the HIV scandal, the 1996 Supreme Court reforms, e-RaktKosh, and the voluntary donor gap.
Blood Storage Explained: Why Red Cells Chill, Platelets Wiggle and Plasma Freezes
How donated blood is stored: red cells at 2-6°C, platelets at room temperature with agitation, plasma frozen, and why the cold chain is unbreakable.
Blood transfusion, explained for patients and families
What a blood transfusion is, which component your relative actually needs, how safety is ensured, and what families in Assam should arrange, plain language, national standards.
Can Blood Be Manufactured? The Honest Science
Can blood be manufactured in a factory? An honest look at why no machine makes whole blood, what science is trying, and why donors still matter.
Cryoprecipitate and Albumin: The Lesser-Known Gifts Inside Plasma
Cryoprecipitate and albumin explained: the lesser-known blood products made from plasma, who needs them, and why every dose begins with a donor.
e-RaktKosh, how to check blood availability yourself
The government's national blood stock platform, and how to use it before you travel to any bank.
Emergency blood support in Assam, what to do, in order
Someone needs blood now. The ordered checklist: hospital first, official availability, then our donor request network.
How to donate blood in Assam, the complete 2026 guide
Where to go, what to carry, what it costs (nothing), and how the register alerts you when your group is needed.
How to organise a blood donation camp in Assam
For colleges, clubs, companies and community groups, the practical steps to run a camp with a licensed centre.
Lab-Grown Red Blood Cells: Promising Science, Distant Reality
Lab-grown red blood cells: small early trials have been reported, but can stem-cell-derived blood ever replace donation? The promise and the reality.
Platelet donation in Assam, dengue season, cancer care and how it works
Why platelet demand spikes every monsoon, why platelets can't be stockpiled, and how platelet donation differs.
The History of Blood Transfusion: From Desperate Experiments to Modern Medicine
From bloodletting to blood banks: the surprising, sometimes dangerous history of transfusion, from Landsteiner's 1901 discovery to modern India.
The Journey of a Blood Bag: From a Donor's Arm to a Patient's Vein
Follow a single unit of donated blood through registration, testing, separation, storage, crossmatch and transfusion, the full journey explained.
Universal donor blood, the science trying to make type O obsolete
Can science convert any blood into type O? Enzyme conversion research, lab-grown cells and synthetic carriers, what's real, what's experimental, and why donors still matter.
Voluntary vs replacement donation, the stat that explains Assam's blood problem
Most of Assam's blood comes from patients' own families. Here's why that's a problem and what changes it.
What blood costs in India, and why donation is free
Is blood free in India? Donating is always free; licensed centres may charge regulated processing fees. The voluntary-vs-replacement system and the illegal blood trade, explained honestly.
What happens to your blood after you donate
From couch to patient, the testing, grouping, separation and cold chain every unit passes through.
Where to donate blood in Assam, centres, camps and your district
The three places donation happens, and how to find the one nearest you right now.
Why Blood Expires: The Race Against Time Inside Every Blood Bank
Why blood expires: the shelf life of red cells, platelets and plasma, what happens to expired units, and why regular donors beat any stockpile.
Why monsoon is blood-donation season in Assam
Floods, dengue and cut-off roads, why the state's hardest months for blood are June to September.