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Soft ray looks to save lives by developing rapid, low-cost system for detection of bacteria in blood platelets

Paul E. Johnson envisions the day when most citizens can have their blood platelets checked quickly for bacteria at a low cost. And he has created the technology that he believes can make a difference in eventually ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yale scientists find stem cells that tell hair it's time to grow

Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Monitoring of heart attack and stroke patients improved by new test

Experts in cardiovascular medicine at The University of Nottingham have won a package of benefits worth £40,000 to develop a simple test which will improve the monitoring and care of heart attack and ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UH engineering professors featured in consecutive issues of Science

Researchers can spend entire careers producing outstanding work but still not see their efforts featured in the pages of Science, one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. That won't be the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Selected cells from blood or bone marrow may provide a route to healing blood vessels

Isolating cells from a patient's blood or bone marrow that nourish blood vessels may be a safer and less arduous route to treatment of cardiovascular disease than obtaining rare stem cells, according to research from Emory ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biologists discover microRNAs that control function of blood stem cells

Hematopoietic stem cells provide the body with a constant supply of blood cells, including the red blood cells that deliver oxygen and the white blood cells that make up the immune system. Hematopoietic -- or blood -- stem ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Team effort in discovery of blood disorder's missing 'LNK'

(PhysOrg.com) -- It might seem, watching a cell dividing languidly under a microscope, that nature has a straight-forward game plan: an orderly progression of "first this, then that." But backstage, it's much ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tissue-engineered grafts composed of adult stem cells could 1 day replace synthetic vascular bypass grafts

Using adult stem cells, researchers have created functional blood vessels that could one day replace synthetic grafts often required in various vascular bypass surgeries, according to research presented at the American Heart ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breakthrough reveals blood vessel cells are key to growing unlimited amounts of adult stem cells

In a leap toward making stem cell therapy widely available, researchers at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that endothelial cells, the most basic building blocks of the vascular ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Newer treatment for Achilles tendon disorder does not appear to be effective

An apparently increasingly used treatment method for a type of Achilles tendon disorder that includes injection of platelet-rich plasma into the tendon does not appear to result in greater improvement in pain or activity ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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