Scientists are reporting development of a new form of aspirin—taken daily by about 60 million people in the United States alone to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke—that could extend aspirin's benefits to people ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 4, 2013
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A new method of microscopic drug delivery that could greatly improve the treatment of deadly pancreatic cancer has been proven to work in mice at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Bio & Medicine
Nov 14, 2013
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Microrobotic agents can form swarms of targeted drug delivery for improved imaging analyses. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Junhui Law and a team of researchers in mechanical and industrial engineering, ...
Adjacent to the walls of our arterioles, capillaries, and venules—the blood vessels that make up our microcirculation—there exists a peculiar thin layer of clear plasma, devoid of red blood cells. Although it is just ...
Soft Matter
Aug 13, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Botryllus schlosseri, a small sea creature, can regenerate its entire body from its blood vessels alone. Stanford researchers hope that sequencing its genome will lead to advances in regenerative and transplant ...
Biotechnology
Aug 15, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Going smaller could bring better results, especially when it comes to cancer-fighting drugs.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2009
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that therapeutic stem cells exit the bloodstream in a different manner than was previously thought. This process, dubbed angiopellosis by the researchers, has ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2016
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Mike Graham knows that fluid dynamics can reveal much about how the flow of blood helps and hinders individual blood cells as they go about their work.
Soft Matter
May 7, 2015
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A finding by UC Riverside bioengineers could hasten development of lab-grown blood vessels and other tissues to replace and regenerate damaged tissues in human patients. The results are published in ACS Applied Materials ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 6, 2022
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Cell rolling is a common mechanism cells use to navigate through the body. During inflammation, for example, the endothelial cells that line blood vessels present certain molecules that attract white blood cells just enough ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 24, 2012
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