{"id":181,"date":"2019-07-02T20:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/?p=181"},"modified":"2019-07-02T20:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:41:58","slug":"blood-sampling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/2019\/07\/02\/blood-sampling\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood sampling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bloods are collected from the tail of each cow on the trial. Once returned to the laboratory, tubes which contain the bloods are weighted evenly and placed into a sorting machine called Centrifuge. Here the blood and serum are separated. From this I can then remove the serum content, place in a new tube the place in the freezer until testing.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001603-e1562099822107-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" width=\"250\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001603-e1562099822107-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001603-e1562099822107-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001603-e1562099822107-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001603-e1562099822107.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption>Blood samples are weighted evenly before placing in Centrifuge as imbalance may affect the splitting of blood and serum .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001606-e1562100023975-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184\" width=\"243\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001606-e1562100023975-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001606-e1562100023975-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001606-e1562100023975-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_001606-e1562100023975.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><figcaption>Centrifuge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_002000-e1562099847848-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183\" width=\"252\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_002000-e1562099847848-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_002000-e1562099847848-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_002000-e1562099847848-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/07\/20190628_002000-e1562099847848.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><figcaption>Post Centrifuge &#8211; blood at the bottom of tube, serum at the top<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloods are collected from the tail of each cow on the trial. Once returned to the laboratory, tubes which contain the bloods are weighted evenly and placed into a sorting machine called Centrifuge. Here the blood and serum are separated. From this I can then remove the serum content, place in a new tube the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/2019\/07\/02\/blood-sampling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blood sampling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/david-farrell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}