May 21, 2020 — Researchers have developed a way to use smartphone images of a person's eyelids to assess blood hemoglobin levels. The ability to perform one of the most common clinical lab tests without a ...
Dec. 11, 2019 — Findings from the ABC-PICU study on critically ill children may alter policies at hospitals where fresh red cells are preferentially ...
Aug. 22, 2019 — A new computer model that captures the dynamics of the red blood cell sickling process could help in evaluating drugs for treating sickle cell ...
July 2, 2019 — Chemists are reporting a new finding on how sickle cells are formed, which may lead not only to stopping their formation, but to new avenues for making uniformly-sized nanoparticles for ...
June 13, 2019 — Researchers have developed a rapid and reliable new method to continuously monitor sickle cell disease using a microfluidics-based electrical impedance sensor. This novel technology can characterize ...
Mar. 14, 2019 — Doubling the low amount of total body radiation delivered to patients undergoing bone marrow transplants with donor cells that are only 'half-matched' increased the rate of engraftment from ...
Feb. 28, 2019 — A new study finds that samples of Candida albicans from patients frequently lack one copy of a vital master regulator, which gives them flexibility to lose the other copy and adapt to different ...
Feb. 28, 2019 — Malaria, which claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year -- mainly children and especially in Africa -, is one of the leading causes of death by an infectious agent, the Plasmodium falciparum ...
Feb. 6, 2019 — Silent strokes are a common symptom of sickle cell disease, though they can be debilitating. Researchers recently showed that silent strokes may be caused by decreased oxygen delivery to a part of ...
Sep. 26, 2018 — Japanese scientists have revealed a biological 'switch' that influences whether an immature blood cell would develop into a red blood cell or a subtype of white blood cell called myeloid ...
Sep. 3, 2018 — A new study describes how sickled red blood cells get stuck in tiny blood vessels of patients with sickle-cell disease. The findings may help researchers predict more accurately when such a ...
Aug. 2, 2018 — Researchers have found how hypoxia (a low concentration of oxygen) decreases Protein S, a natural anticoagulant, resulting in an increased risk for the development of potentially life-threatening ...
July 30, 2018 — Scientists discovered that a well-known DNA repair pathway, the Fanconi anemia pathway, surprisingly plays a key role in repairing double-strand DNA breaks created by CRISPR-Cas9. It acts as a ...
July 24, 2018 — Scientists have discovered that some treatments for cancer and sickle cell disease can destroy the germ cells that go on to develop into sperm in the testes of young boys. In some pre-pubescent boys, ...
July 19, 2018 — Medical researchers have identified a key signaling protein that regulates hemoglobin production in red blood cells, offering a possible target for a future innovative drug to treat sickle cell ...
June 11, 2018 — Therapeutic use of gene editing with the so-called CRISPR-Cas9 technique may inadvertently increase the risk of cancer, according to a new study. Researchers say that more studies are required in ...
Apr. 25, 2018 — Doctors have cured seven adult patients of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder primarily affecting the black community, using stem cells from donors previously thought to be ...
Apr. 4, 2018 — Researchers report that a protein called myosin IIA contracts to give red blood cells their distinctive shape. The findings could shed light on sickle cell diseases and other disorders where red ...
Apr. 2, 2018 — In a landmark study that could lead to new therapies for sickle cell anemia and other blood disorders, researchers have used CRISPR gene editing to introduce beneficial natural mutations into blood ...
Mar. 19, 2018 — For the first time, cellular machines called ribosomes -- which create proteins in every cell of the body -- have been linked to blood stem cell differentiation. The findings have revealed a ...
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