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Rhesus protein stops blood becoming acidic (Nature)
Blood-group-factor family has a role in pH control.
Glowing anemone yields 'light switch' protein (New Scientist)
An anemone that only glows under certain wavelengths could reveal living cells in unprecedented detail –
Researchers Targeting Bacterial Blood Infections (The Suncoast News Pinellas)
Bacteria can cause potentially fatal infections that can spread along the bloodstream and attack organs such the lungs or bladder. With bacteria increasingly showing resistance to standard antibiotic drugs, this is a growing, if somewhat under-reported, human health risk.
Battling Bacteria In The Blood: Mathematical Models Help In Tackling Deadly Infections (Science Daily)
It's a leading cause of death, but no one knows for sure how and why it happens. It's a major source of health care costs, adding days or weeks to the hospital stays of millions of people. But no one fully understands how best to fight it. Now, new research is tackling the problem at its most basic level, in hopes of finding new and more effective ways to treat bacteremia and sepsis.
Medical Products Maker's Blood-Testing Tools Dominate The Field (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Talk about a captive market. Say you're an accident victim or a transplant patient or an anemic diabetic, and you need a blood transfusion.
Studying Individual Breast Cancer Cells For Days At A Time, Using New Method (Science Daily)
Scientists describe for the first time a method of viewing individual breast cancer cells for several days at a time.
Ten-Minute Blood Test (Technology Review)
A cheap chip rapidly identifies cancer proteins in a drop of blood.
Not red enough (The Star)
Anaemia is a condition due to the lack of red blood cells in blood.
DARPA teams up with Arteriocyte to create ominous-sounding blood pharming machine for the military (Engadget)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets DARPA 's been running a blood pharming program for quite awhile now, but it's gotten a real kick start this week with the announcement of a partnership with Cleveland-based biotech company Arteriocyte. Arteriocyte, it seems, has developed a Nanofiber Based System, or NANEX, a technology that enables the production of red blood cells without a donor. The two ...
Military wants 'blood pharming' machine (CNET)
Military seek machine to culture and package red blood cells on the battlefield.