**Author details**

Mark D. Scott1,2,3\*, Kerryn Matthews2,4 and Hongshen Ma2,4

1 Centre for Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2 Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

3 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

\*Address all correspondence to: mdscott@mail.ubc.ca

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