Vox Sanguinis is an international journal published on behalf of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, reporting on significant developments and advancements in transfusion medicine. Vox Sanguinis reports on all issues related to transfusion medicine, from donor vein to recipient vein, including cellular therapies. Comments, reviews, original articles, short reports and international fora are published, grouped into six main sections: 1) Donors and Donations: Donor recruitment and retention Donor selection Donor health (vigilance, side effects of donation) 2) Blood Component Collection and Production: Blood collection methods and devices (including apheresis) Blood component preparation Inventory management Collection and storage of tissues Quality management and good manufacturing practice Automation and information technology Plasma fractionation techniques and plasma derivatives 3) Transfusion-transmitted Disease and its Prevention: Identification and epidemiology of infectious pathogens transmissible by blood Donor testing for transfusion-transmissible infectious pathogens Bacterial contamination of blood components Pathogen inactivation 4) Immunohaematology and Immunogenetics: Autoimmunity in haematology Alloimmunity of blood Pre-transfusion testing Complement in immunohaematology Blood phenotyping and genotyping Complement in immunohaematology; Blood typing reagents; Genetic markers of blood cells and serum proteins: polymorphisms and function Parentage testing and forensic immunohaematology 5) Transfusion Medicine Transfusion practice, thresholds and audits Transfusion efficacy assessment, clinical trials Haemovigilance Non-infectious transfusion adverse events Therapeutic apheresis 6) Cellular Therapy Cell-based therapies CAR T-cell therapies Genetically modified cell therapies Cellular therapy (sources; products; processing and storage) Stem cells Cell-based regenerative medicine Cellular immunotherapy Molecular therapy

Vox Sanguinis is an international journal published on behalf of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, reporting on significant developments and advancements in transfusion medicine. Vox Sanguinis reports on all issues related to transfusion medicine, from donor vein to recipient vein, ...