Mindzilla – Blood cells

Red Blood Cell Transfusions Can Increase Mortality Rates of Newborns on ECMO, Study Finds

February 14, 2022
Mindzilla

Augusta, GA — Newborns in respiratory failure who require the life-sustaining support of ECMO also require transfusion of red blood cells. But a new study indicates that the higher volume of these...

New Computational Tool Predicts Cell Fates and Genetic Perturbations

February 1, 2022
Mindzilla

Cambridge, MA — Imagine a ball thrown in the air: it curves up, then down, tracing an arc to a point on the ground some distance away. The path of the ball can be described with a simple mathematical...

Blood Cells could Serve as ‘Thermometer’ to Detect Breast Cancer

May 14, 2020
Mindzilla

São Paulo, Brazil — Immune system cells in the blood of breast cancer patients undergo alterations early in the disease course, according to a study published in the journal Clinical...

Uncovering Secrets of Bone Marrow Cells and How They Differentiate

August 1, 2019
Mindzilla

Birmingham, AL — Bone marrow contains biological factories, which pump out billions of new blood cells daily. The non-blood cells that maintain this production also have the potential to produce bone,...

Blood Cells could Hold Master Clock Behind Ageing

February 8, 2019
Mindzilla

Cleveland, OH — Blood cells could hold the key to ageing, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. In a study published in Aging Cell, researchers found...

Researchers Find Blood Cells in Birds That Destroy Fatal Fungal Infection

February 17, 2016
Mindzilla

Sheffield, UK — Scientists have discovered that a specialized white blood cell found in birds can destroy a potentially fatal fungal infection which affects more than one million people every year.

Key Player in The Maintenance of Blood Stem Cells Identified

February 17, 2016
Mindzilla

Singapore — A study led by scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore has uncovered a key player contributing to the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells, blood cell precursors which...

Researchers Discover New Solvent-Free Way of Preserving Tissues and Cells With Hydrogel

February 2, 2016
Mindzilla

Sheffield, UK — Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick have found that using a block copolymer hydrogel, which forms a soft 3D network of nanometer-sized worms in water, prevents...

Study Reveals Details of Mechanism For Making Blood Cells

January 20, 2016
Kristina Popova

Tsukuba, Japan — In 1917, Florence Sabin, the first female member of the US National Academy of Sciences, discovered hemangioblasts, the common precursor cells for blood cells and blood vessel endothelia....

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