Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and their collaborators announce the creation of a microfluidic device capable of measuring the blood flow of patients diagnosed with sickle cell disease, a very severe condition of the circulatory system.
People suffering from SCD exhibit a specific mut... |
1 March 2012
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Michigan State University (MSU) scientists announce the discovery of a new receptor on the surface of blood platelets. The discovery could open the way to developing a new class of drugs, fit to treat a wide range of existing diseases, the team explains.
Blood platelets, also known as thrombocytes, are cellular fra... |
20 January 2012
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Harvard University investigators announce the development of a non-invasive imaging technique that can be used to capture images of living tissues at the molecular level. The group reports that it was able to observe the passing of red blood cells through the capillaries of the vascular system.The researchers made th... |
6 December 2010
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Scientists from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne in Australia, have identified the newest pathway taken by the malaria parasites to infect the body's red blood cells, and have made another step towards an effective vaccine for the disease.Malaria is the disease that infects 400 million people eve... |
24 September 2010
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One of the fundamental truths about our bodies is that most cells need oxygen to survive. We inhale the chemical each breath we take, then take it to our lungs, where the precious molecules are then attached to hemoglobin, one of the most important proteins we have. Hemoglobin itself is housed on red blood cells, ele... |
1 June 2010
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Two undergraduate students from the Rice University have recently created an innovative medical device, which they say could help save some lives starting this summer. The students explain that they basically derived a fully-fledged centrifuge for blood separation using nothing more than a salad mixer. If their plan ... |
4 May 2010
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For investigators working to find cures for blood-cell-morphology conditions, such as malaria and sickle-cell disease, gaining a deeper understanding of how the membranes of red blood cells work is of the utmost importance. RBC are among the most peculiar cells in the human body. They do not contain the intracellular... |
29 April 2010
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It is widely known among experts that smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate, which means that they essentially have to consume more food in order to be able to function. A famous example in this sense is the hummingbird, which has to consume several times its own weight in pollen each day in order to be able t... |
24 October 2009
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According to a new report by experts from the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, in Hartford, Connecticut, severe-trauma patients who receive blood transfusions containing red blood cells older than one month have a twice as large chance of dying than similar patients who receive fresh blood. In keeping cons... |
22 September 2009
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Experts from the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories have recently managed to bring the goal of creating fully functional, mature red blood cells from stem cells a bit closer. They designed a line of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to become fluorescent only when it is differentiated into RBCs, and then wa... |
24 August 2009
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