"If there was a suitable platelet substitute that would be a tremendous achievement for clinical medicine" says hematologist Marcel Levi of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

“假如能够搞出种合适的血小板替代品，那将是临不起的成就，”荷兰阿姆斯特丹大的血液家马塞尔·利瓦伊说。