News tagged with blood oxygen

Tibetans developed genes to help them adapt to life at high elevations

Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill - and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Beetroot juice boosts stamina, new study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beetroot juice boosts your stamina and could help you exercise for up to 16% longer. A University of Exeter led-study, published today, shows for the first time how the nitrate contained ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 6

Cutting off the oxygen supply to serious diseases

A new family of proteins which regulate the human body's 'hypoxic response' to low levels of oxygen has been discovered by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary, University of London and The University of Nottingham.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aging-related degeneration caused by defects of energy metabolism in tissue stem cells?

Aging-related tissue degeneration can be caused by mitochondrial dysfunction in tissue stem cells. The research group of Professor Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara in Helsinki University, with their collaborators in Max Planck ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pine-bark extract has no effect on blood pressure, study finds

Add pine-bark extract to the list of dietary supplements that don't live up to their promises of improved health. A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that pine-bark extract had no effect in lowering ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Blood pressure breakthrough holds real hope for treatment of pre-eclampsia

Scientists have discovered a mechanism which raises blood pressure in pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly condition which occurs during pregnancy.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify molecules that ensure red blood cell production

(PhysOrg.com) -- Red blood cells, the delivery men that take oxygen to cells all around the body, have short lives. To keep enough of them in circulation, the human body produces around 2 million of these ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying

Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk o ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New Approach Developed to Improve Drug Delivery in Tumors

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using mathematical modeling to understand blood flow, researchers -- including the UA's Timothy Secomb, a pioneer in the field -- have proposed a novel approach to treating cancerous tumors.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hydrogen peroxide marshals immune system (w/Video)

When you were a kid your mom poured it on your scraped finger to stave off infection. When you got older you might have even used it to bleach your hair. Now there's another possible function for this over-the-counter colorless ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers show new antioxidant could help treat cardiovascular disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow believe they have found a potential new treatment for cardiovascular disease which reduces blood pressure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hold the phone for vital signs

An iPhone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher who is now turning smart phones, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Proteins by design: Biochemists create new protein from scratch

(PhysOrg.com) -- No doubt proteins are complex. Most are "large" and full of interdependent branches, pockets and bends in their final folded structure. This complexity frustrates biochemists and protein engineers ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Researcher seeks to turn stem cells into blood vessels

A Johns Hopkins engineer is trying to coax human stem cells to turn into networks of new blood vessels that could someday be used to replace damaged tissue in people with heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0