The plasma is used to manufacture various products, including the clotting factor that hemophiliacs need because of a deficiency caused by their disease.

In the following year, plasma cutting machines were used in parallel operation for the first time.

In these cases, fresh frozen plasma or recombinant factor XI may be used, but only if necessary.

Industry standards require at least two sets of negative test results before the collected plasma is used for injectable products.

The plasma itself will be used only for the AIDS research.

Alternatively the plasma can be used as a reflector or a lens to guide and focus radio waves from another source.

A spokeswoman for the drug agency said the delay was inadvertent and of little consequence since the plasma is used only in hospitals.

Prior to the United States' involvement in the war, liquid plasma and whole blood were used.

This plasma could then be used as a weapon or as a means of self-propelled flight.

They hypothesize that this captured plasma could then be redirected by a focusing system and used as a weapon.