News tagged with red blood cell

Artificial blood developed for the battlefield

(PhysOrg.com) -- US scientists working for the experimental arm of the Pentagon have developed artificial blood for use in transfusions for wounded soldiers in battlefields. The blood cells are said to be ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time

The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists.

Biology / Biotechnology

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New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Engineered version of HIV is used to cure genetic blood disorder

For the second time, researchers have used the HIV virus in gene therapy to cure a severe genetic disease, this time the blood disorder beta-thalassemia, which causes life-threatening anemia.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers inch closer to unlocking potential of synthetic blood

A team of scientists has created particles that closely mirror some of the key properties of red blood cells, potentially helping pave the way for the development of synthetic blood.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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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

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Stem-cell work closes a door to AIDS virus

Lab work on mice has opened up a novel way of closing a gateway to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Friday.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researchers develop synthetic platelets

Synthetic platelets have been developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Their findings are ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Scientists successfully reprogram blood cells

Researchers have transplanted genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells into mice so that their developing red blood cells produce a critical lysosomal enzyme -preventing or reducing organ and central nervous system damage ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers identify mechanism malaria parasite uses to spread among red blood cells

Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Yet, how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle has remained an enigma despite decades of rigorous research.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Arsenic used to treat leukemia

(PhysOrg.com) -- Arsenic, known in the West mainly as a poison, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for around two thousand years for the treatment of conditions such as syphilis and psoriasis. It ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

UA engineers win patent for protein-based electronic circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona engineers have patented a process that could lead to the next big leap in microelectronics, completely changing the way microchips are made. Pierre Deymier, a professor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New twist on potential malaria drug target acts by trapping parasites in cells

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues seeking to block invasion of healthy red blood cells by malaria parasites have instead succeeded in locking the parasites within infected blood cells, potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Superbug's CPU revealed: Researchers discover chemical clue directing Staphylococcus aureus

McMaster University researchers have discovered a central controller or processing unit (CPU) of a superbug's weaponry.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast