Discovered: Why obesity causes high blood pressure — and potential ways to fix
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered why obesity causes ...
Tag: Hematology
Clotting problem
UD-led team uncovers a blood disorder's creeping, crawling originCredit: Illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase Ouch, you've cut your finger! As ...
Novel sepsis treatment enhances bacterial capture by neutrophil ‘traps’
New treatment developed by CHOP researchers poised to improve sepsis outcomesCredit: Kandace Gollomp, MD Philadelphia, March 5, 2020--Researchers at Children's ...
New next-generation sequencing technique dramatically shortens diagnosis of sepsis
Availability of results within 5 to 6 hours of blood draw allows faster and more precise intervention when time is ...
The CNIO discovers that rapamycin has harmful effects when telomeres are short
The finding helps to better understand diseases such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosisCredit: CNIO In the past few decades, ...
Research project aims to make experiments on red blood cells more realistic
Credit: Saarland University/Thorsten Mohr Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are the pack animals of the human circulatory system. They transport oxygen ...
NIH announces $1 million prize competition to target global disease diagnostics
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to offer supplementary support for designs that can be developed into products on a rapid ...
Study points to better medical diagnosis through levitating human blood
Floating human plasma helps researchers detect diseases like opioid addictionCredit: UBCO New research from the UBC's Okanagan campus, Harvard Medical ...
CDI laboratory explores pathway to open up blood cancer treatments
The paper in Nature Communications could mean better treatment for leukemia, among other cancersCredit: Hackensack Meridian Health February 12, 2020, ...
The human brain’s meticulous interface with the bloodstream now on a precision chip
This new human blood-brain barrier on a chip gets its surprising edge by giving astrocytes 3D living spaceCredit: Georgia Tech ...
New method for monitoring residual disease after treatment in children with neuroblastoma
Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Professor NISHIMURA Noriyuki (Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe University) has developed ...
CD19 CAR NK-cell therapy achieves 73% response rate in patients with leukemia and lymphoma
MD Anderson-developed cell therapy results in no major toxicities in Phase I/IIa trial for relapsed and refractory hematologic cancersCredit: MD ...
New way to study pituitary tumors holds potential for better diagnoses and treatments
Credit: Kumar Pichumani Houston Methodist neurosurgeons and neuroscientists are looking at a new way to classify pituitary tumors that could ...
Mutation’s role in blood cancers revealed by ideal team-up
Credit: ©Gina Motisi, 2019/CSHL A genetic mutation that disrupts how DNA sends messages to the rest of a cell has ...