Items tagged with blood

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Tiny Artery Sensor Measures Blood Pressure Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 - 16:50:36 - Anuradha Menon High blood pressure can be a trial of patience for doctors and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until... read more

Young Blood Fights Cancer Saturday, January 17th, 2009 - 18:12:03 - Anuradha Menon Recent research by Tel Aviv University finds that young blood does a body good as well, especially when it comes when fighting cancer. The TAU... read more

Model Predicts How to Build a Better Stent Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 12:03:51 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have been puzzled in recent years by observations that drug-releasing stents (mesh-like tubes implanted to hold patients' coronary... read more

Blood Clotting Accelerated Sunday, December 28th, 2008 - 12:05:23 - Ehud Rattner Researchers have made several, subtle changes in the structure of a key protein, dramatically increasing its ability to drive blood clotting... read more

Photoacoustics Useful in Cancer Research Saturday, December 6th, 2008 - 10:12:53 - Anuradha Menon Photoacoustics can be used to show the development of blood capillaries in and around a tumour. PhD student, Kiran Kumar Thumma, of the University of... read more

'Barcode Chip' for Cheap, Fast Blood Tests Thursday, November 27th, 2008 - 16:22:20 - Anuradha Menon A new 'barcode chip' developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) promises to revolutionize diagnostic medical... read more

Umbilical Cord May Help Build Heart Valves Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon Children with heart defects may someday receive perfectly-matched new heart valves built using stem cells from their umbilical cord blood, according... read more

Can Grapes Fight High Blood Pressure? Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 16:18:32 - Anuradha Menon Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart... read more

'Bad Egg' Gas Controls Blood Flow Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 - 13:55:46 - Ehud Rattner As the smell of rotten eggs wafts past your nostrils, you're more likely to be revulsed than relaxed. Yet researchers have now shown that the 'bad... read more

AAT Protein Aids Type 1 Diabetes Patients Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 10:32:25 - Anuradha Menon A protein made by the liver in response to inflammation and used to treat patients suffering from a genetic form of emphysema has been shown to... read more

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