Unlocking a cure for carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas made when fossil fuels burn incompletely. It's also a silent killer.
Biochemistry
Apr 29, 2022
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News tagged with blood oxygenation
Researchers develop near-infrared responsive nanoassemblies for combined breast cancer therapy
Recently, researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and South China University of Technology collaborated to develop a near-infrared (NIR)-driven ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 19, 2022
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Treating cancer with light-sensitive nanoscale biomaterials
Treating cancer and other diseases with laser light is not currently considered routine in the clinical setting, but new approaches using nanoparticles show some promise in improving existing techniques.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 15, 2022
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Male seahorses develop placentas to support their growing babies
Supplying oxygen to their growing offspring and removing carbon dioxide is a major challenge for every pregnant animal. Humans deal with this problem by developing a placenta, but in seahorses—where the male, not the female, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2021
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Elite freedivers have brain oxygen levels lower than seals
Elite freedivers who dive unaided in open sea, have brain oxygen levels even lower than seals during their deepest dives, new research at the University of St Andrews has found.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2021
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First nanoscale look at a reaction that limits the efficiency of generating clean hydrogen fuel
Transitioning from fossil fuels to a clean hydrogen economy will require cheaper and more efficient ways to use renewable sources of electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Nanophysics
May 6, 2021
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Birds' blood functions as heating system in winter
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. The study is published in The FASEB Journal.
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2021
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Fish more tolerant than expected to low oxygen events
Fish may be more tolerant than previously thought to periods of low oxygen in the oceans, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2019
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Three win Nobel Prize for showing how cells sense low oxygen
Two Americans and a British scientist won a Nobel Prize on Monday for discovering details of how the body's cells sense and react to low oxygen levels, providing a foothold for developing new treatments for anemia, cancer ...
Other
Oct 7, 2019
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Tropical sea snake uses its head to 'breathe'
Humans use a snorkel and fish have gills. Now researchers have found a sea snake which uses a complex system of blood vessels in its head to draw in extra oxygen when it dives and swims underwater.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2019
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