News tagged with circulatory physiology

Chemical can reproduce complications for some patients

Medical science took a giant leap forward with the development of techniques that, at least temporarily, perform the function of vital organs. These processes, including the use of the heart-lung machine and renal dialysis, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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The heart of the plant

Food prices are soaring at the same time as the Earth's population is nearing 9 billion. As a result the need for increased crop yields is extremely important. New research led by Carnegie's Wolf Frommer into the system by ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

As gravity wanes and pressures gain, it's pain and bane for the brain

In space, the old movie slogan declares, "no one can hear you scream." On the other hand, you might look like it, with puffy face, swollen eyes and distended neck veins. This is what happens when, screaming ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New treatment for thrombosis discovered

Scientists from the University of Reading have announced a major breakthrough in understanding how to control blood clotting which could lead to the development of new treatments and save the lives of thousands of people ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Team grows arteries with most elastic protein reported, big step for living vascular grafts

University of Pittsburgh researchers have grown arteries that exhibit the elasticity of natural blood vessels at the highest levels reported, a development that could overcome a major barrier to creating living-tissue replacements ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New invention could improve treatment for children with 'water on the brain'

Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists participated in a study with researchers from the University of Utah that could help find ways to improve shunt systems used to treat the neurological disorder hydrocephalus, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lifelong exercising yields sensational results

Senior active skiers have twice the oxygen-uptake capacity of seniors who do not exercise. This is shown in new research at Mid Sweden University.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | 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

Nobel winner ties mental illness to immune defect

A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study pinpoints new role of molecule in the health of body's back-up blood circulation

When the arteries delivering oxygen to our vital organs are obstructed by atherosclerosis or clots, the result is almost always a stroke, heart attack or damage to a peripheral tissue such as the legs (peripheral ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bioengineer is on the trail of cellular mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the intersection of engineering and biology, faculty member Mohammad Mofrad is seeking to answer fundamental questions about the the biomechanics of human cells. His work may one ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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