{"id":80267,"date":"2020-01-13T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=80267"},"modified":"2020-02-20T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:03:13","slug":"cbc-saving-lives-cracking-cases-is-in-dan-kranes-blood-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/01\/13\/cbc-saving-lives-cracking-cases-is-in-dan-kranes-blood-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC: Saving lives, cracking cases is in Dan Krane’s blood, DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interim Lake Campus Dean Dan Krane is among the rare 0.6 percent of people with AB-negative blood.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University\u2019s Dan Krane is an AB-negative donor, the rarest of all blood types and the universal donor for platelets and plasma.\u00a0 He gave platelets for his milestone 200th lifetime donation Jan. 10 at the Dayton Community Blood Center (CBC), so you can say helping save lives \u201cis in his blood.\u201d\u00a0 But it\u2019s also in his DNA.<\/p>\n

Krane now has 200 donations with the CBC, but he has several more from his time in Massachusetts where he did post-doctoral research at Harvard University and began donating platelets. \u201cWhen I started, it was the two-arm procedure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Krane is among the rare 0.6 percent of people with AB-negative blood. \u201cI have a pretty good platelet count as well,\u201d he said. \u201cI do doubles (double platelet donations) all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He considers that his \u201cDonor for Life\u201d journey truly began when he was a 10-year old boy, growing up in Cleveland, and enjoying the snow on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a sledding accident and needed donations, so that motivated me,\u201d Dan said. \u201cI hit a tree and the sled kicked-back, struck me in the middle. I needed eight units of blood. I lost my left kidney and spleen. That\u2019s why I have such a high platelet count.\u00a0 When you see very high platelet counts, the person is very often asplenic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biology tells us the spleen is responsible for removing damaged platelets and therefore removal of the spleen can help to keep more platelets circulating in the body. That knowledge comes easy to Krane who has taught biological science at Wright State University since 1993.<\/p>\n

He has been elected president of the Wright State Faculty Senate four times and was recently named interim dean of the 1,600 students at Wright State’s Lake Campus in Celina. He commutes from his home in Xenia.<\/p>\n

A passion that rivals even his dedication to blood donations, is his study of DNA. He is one of the world\u2019s foremost DNA authorities and has testified as an expert witness in more than 100 criminal trials.<\/p>\n

Since 2002 his consulting company, Forensic Bioinformatics, has reviewed hundreds of court cases from around the world and used the data to develop computer-based tools to make forensic DNA profiling more reliable and objective.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were the very first successful start-up company at Wright State,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He has been involved as an expert witness in some of the highest-profile criminal cases, including prosecutions of the \u201cUnabomber\u2019 Ted Kaczynski, the Washington D.C. sniper, and O.J. Simpson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a rare case where we did work for both the defense and the prosecution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As he made his 200th\u00a0donation he catches up on emails about a new case in need of his expertise. \u201cThere\u2019s a person in the Netherlands who wants us to work on his case,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a murder. It\u2019s been dismissed, but he wants to clear his name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before completing his milestone, Krane got to enjoy what he considers one of the rewards of his monthly platelet donations at the CBC. \u201cI love the time to read a book,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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