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Eminent Cairo and Ibn al-Nafis discover pulmonary circulation.
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William Harvey explains blood is pumped by the heart and circulates through the body.
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Jan Swammerdam is the first person to observe red blood cells.
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Richard Lower and Edmund King give blood tranfusion using sheeps blood, the patient survives.
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Philip Syng Physick performs the first human to human transfusion but it was unpublished.
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the first recorded human to human blood tranfusion performed by James Blundell.
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sir William Oslar observes small cell fragments in bone marrow which will later be called Platelets.
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Karl Landsteiner discovers three blood groups, A, B, and O.
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Landsteiners colleagues, Alfred Von Decastello and Andrian Sturli find fourth blood group AB.
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Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discovered adding sodium citrate will prevent blood clotting.
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Dr.Richard Lewisohn found out that .2 percent sodium citrate can be added without harm.
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Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner found a way to store blood using citrate-glucose solution.
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Soviets are first to establish places to collect and store blood for hospitals.
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The U.S. begins storing citrated blood and utilizing it for transfusions starting with the mayo clinic in Rochester, MN.
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Dr. Bernard Fantus describes blood donation, collection, and preservation as "blood banks".
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Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover Rh blood group.
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Red Cross collects blood for the war effort. 13 million units are colected.
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The American Association of Blood Banks is formed. The first meeeting was held in Dallas.
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Dr. Carl Walter creates plastic bags used to collect blood. before this they used glass.
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Dr. Max Perutz unravels the structure of Hemoglobin, which carries Oxygen.
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Dr. Baruch Blumberg finds substance on top of Hep B. virus. this leads to the development of a test to detect the presence of Hep B antibodies, thereby identifying infected donors.
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first cases of AIDS are reported.
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the virus that causes AIDS is HTLV-III discovered by Dr. Robert Gallo.
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the ELISA test is licensed by the U.S. government to detect diseases.
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More tests are created to find infectious diseases in blood, anti-HTLV-I, Hep C test, Hiv-I, and Hiv-2 antibodies test, Hiv p24 antigen test, and NAT.
