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Math predicts size of clot-forming cells

UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surgical castration of cats, dogs leads to increased tendency to postoperative coagulation, inflammatory changes

Dogs and cats that are sterilised or castrated develop a stress response: inflammatory changes and an increased tendency to coagulation after the operation.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New system may one day steer microrobots through blood vessels for disease treatment

Researchers use a magnetic field to generate both side-to-side and corkscrew-like motions of tiny robots.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Toward an improved test for adulterated heparin

Scientists are reporting refinement of a new test that promises to help assure the safety of supplies of heparin, the blood thinner taken by millions of people worldwide each year to prevent blood clots. The ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evolution provides clue to blood clotting

A simple cut to the skin unleashes a complex cascade of chemistry to stem the flow of blood. Now, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have used evolutionary clues to reveal ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New test puts the squeeze on horseshoe crabs

If new technology under development proves out, horseshoe crabs will have to undergo fewer blood donations.

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genome editing, a next step in genetic therapy, corrects hemophilia in animals

Using an innovative gene therapy technique called genome editing that hones in on the precise location of mutated DNA, scientists have treated the blood clotting disorder hemophilia in mice. This is the first time that genome ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

FDA recommends lower doses of anemia drugs

(AP) -- Food and Drug Administration officials say doctors should use lower doses of anemia drugs when treating patients with failing kidneys due to the increased risk of stroke, blood clots and death.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New delivery system for Viagra ingredient

Scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of a potential new delivery system for the biological signaling agent responsible for the effects of Viagra. It could be used to deliver the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US reviews birth control pill safety over clot risk

The US Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it is reviewing recently published studies which have pointed to an increased blood clot risk associated with a certain type of birth control pill.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers solve decades-old molecular mystery linked to blood clotting

Blood clotting is a complicated business, particularly for those trying to understand how the body responds to injury. In a new study, researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Structure formed by strep protein can trigger toxic shock

Infection with some strains of strep turn deadly when a protein found on their surface triggers a widespread inflammatory reaction.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing rice with X-rays may improve crop yields

Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the patients in a novel use ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Welsh girls to get morning-after pill for free

(AP) -- Women and girls as young as 13 in Wales can get the morning-after pill free without a prescription from pharmacies, beginning Friday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mini-stroke doubles risk of heart attack

Patients who have suffered a "mini stroke" are at twice the risk of heart attack than the general population, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0