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Drones carried blood samples over the Arizona desert, and it could change the future of medicine

The goal is to fly over the challenges of ground transportation.
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Drones carried blood samples over the Arizona desert, and it could change the future of medicine
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Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine used drones to transfer human blood samples, traveling over 160 miles across the Arizona desert.

This is a new distance record for unmanned aircraft transportation of medical samples and it could improve the speed of the diagnoses for remote patients.

Topics Drones Innovations

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