POSTS TAGGED AS Blood

Growing Blood without A, B and RhD Antigens

Red blood cells
There are 36 different blood groups and more than 350 antigens on red blood cells that can cause [MORE]

Measuring Heartbeat and Blood Flow with a Camera

Professor Gunther and Ruben Invent Camera for Heart Rate Estimation
Noting that hemoglobin absorbs green light, researchers at Utah State University [MORE]

Transfusion Medicine—Opportunities?

Blood Transfusion
Many of our readers are opportunity-minded, i.e. innovators looking for something to make better. And, there’s hardly a medical [MORE]

A Hydroelectric Power Plant in Your Blood Vessels

Blood Vessel
Bioengineers at Fudan University (Shanghai) have built what they call a “fiber shaped fluidic nanogenerator” which is small enough [MORE]

Hydrogel Nanocomposite to Staunch Hemorrhage

Chemical engineers at MIT have developed a new material to stop hemorrhage from battlefield wounds or surgical accidents. “The biomaterial [MORE]

Graphene Dialysis Membrane

Patient Receiving Dialysis
A typical dialysis session lasts four hours and has to be repeated three times a week. The reason [MORE]

MIT’s Microfluidics Device to Detect Plasma Cells

MIT Multiple Myeloma Microfluidics
Multiple myeloma comes from a proliferation of white blood cells (plasma cells) that result in overproduction of [MORE]

New Artificial Lung

Artificial Lung
The heart lung machine Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. invented and first used on a surgery patient in May [MORE]

Protein Profile Blood Test for Cancer

Prof. Tao and Team Developed Blood Test for Cancer Proteins
The biomarkers that really matter in liquid biopsies are proteins, and [MORE]

Immortalized Stem Cells for Growing Blood

Strategies for growing blood from stem cells have proved only marginally successful, because even
Stem Cell
stem cells show the reproductive restriction [MORE]

Monitoring Blood Coagulation Continuously During Surgery

Blood Cells
During a heart operation, surgeons need to know if the patient’s blood is coagulating too quickly—potentially causing clots. To [MORE]

A Blood Test for Parkinson’s Disease

Neurofilament Staining of Human Cerebellum
When body cells die their debris ends up in blood. So, it shouldn’t come as a [MORE]

Automated Liquid Biopsy

Volcano CTC System
Because tumor cells in blood tend to be larger than blood cells, it’s possible to separate the two [MORE]

Lens Free Microscope for Automated Diagnosis of Meningitis

Fluid Lens Free Microscopy for Meningitis
Quoting directly from this piece: “French researchers from Grenoble Alpes University and Aix-Marseille University have [MORE]