POSTS TAGGED AS Blood

Microfluidic Device for Assessing Blood Clotting

Microfluidic device by Jain and team to help detect blood clots
Engineers at Texas A & M University have built a [MORE]

Platelets in a Cytokine Storm

Platelets fuel inflammasome activation
Platelets are necessary blood cells that staunch bleeding, but according to researchers at the University of Bonn, [MORE]

Identifying Different Types of Blood Clots

Classification of platelet aggregates by agonist type
In another platelet report—this one describing work Japanese and Chinese biochemists have done in [MORE]

Monitoring Hemolysis

Monitoring hemolysis in dialysis
Mechanical and aerospace engineers at the University of Delaware have designed an instrument for measuring the damage [MORE]

Modeling Blood Flow in 3D VR

VR for blood flow helps direct stent placement
“Biomedical engineers are developing a massive fluid dynamics simulator that can model blood [MORE]

A COVID-19 Biobank

COVID-19
Last February, when more than 100 Biogen representatives from around the world attended a conference, they unwittingly became a means [MORE]

Clearing Fat from the Bloodstream

Fat busting proteins made in the lab
An article in the Journal of Lipid Research describes how scientists at the University [MORE]

A Clot Timing Chip

 
XaTek clot clip
XaTek, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) has introduced a handheld device it calls the “ClotChip.”  About the size and shape [MORE]

Ultrasound Method to Dry Blood

Freeze-dried Blood
Ultrasound, in a process called sonoporation, can deliver molecules across a plama membrane, such as that surrounding a red [MORE]

A Robot that Draws Blood and Inserts Catheters

Robot draws blood accurately
“As healthcare staff can find it difficult to see the vein they are attempting to access, complications [MORE]

Need to Automate Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Use

Mass Spectrometry Quantitative Proteomic Workflows
Mass spectroscopy is a technology for determining, among other things, the size and weight of protein [MORE]

3D Printed Cell Traps

3D-printed cell trap isolates tumor cells in blood sample
Engineers at Georgia Tech and Emory University report using 3D printing “to [MORE]

Mass-Spec Test for QC in Blood Samples

Mass spec for QC of blood products.
“Exposure of blood plasma/serum (P/S) to thawed conditions (> −30 °C) can produce biomolecular [MORE]

Laser Heated Blood Incubator

Monash Researchers developed laser blood testing pre-transfusion
Blood typing has become so much more complex (346 different types) that pretesting for [MORE]