News tagged with red blood cell


Final chapter to 60-year-old blood group mystery

Researchers have solved a 60-year-old mystery by identifying a gene that can cause rejection, kidney failure and even death in some blood transfusion patients. In this study, published in Nature Genetics online ...

Genetics created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology measures oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time

In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time.

Medical research created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

White blood cells found to play key role in controlling red blood cell levels

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that macrophages – white blood cells that play a key role in the immune response – also ...

Medical research created Mar 17, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds protein in platelets fight malaria but only for some people

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Australia have found that a protein in platelets found naturally in blood has a protective effect against malaria. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how th ...

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Study identifies 75 genetic regions that influence red blood cell formation

New research is revealing how red blood cells are made and how the body regulates the amount of haemoglobin that is packaged in red blood cells at any time. Genomic analysis techniques have doubled the number of genetic regions ...

Genetics created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers link new molecular culprit to breast cancer progression

(Phys.org)—Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered a protein "partner" commonly used by breast cancer cells to unlock genes needed for spreading the disease around the body. A report on the discovery, published November ...

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Loss of essential blood cell gene leads to anemia

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered a new gene that regulates hemoglobin synthesis during red blood cell formation. The findings advance the biomedical community's understanding and treatment ...

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New research suggests all primates shared common blood type ancestor

(Medical Xpress)—An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests that the ABO blood types found in all primates developed in a shared common ancestor. In their paper published in the ...

Medical research created Oct 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Scientists find missing link between stem cells, immune system

UCLA researchers have discovered a type of cell that is the "missing link" between bone marrow stem cells and all the cells of the human immune system, a finding that will lead to a greater understanding of how a healthy ...

Immunology created Sep 02, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein impedes microcirculation of malaria-infected red blood cells

(Medical Xpress)—When the parasite responsible for malaria infects human red blood cells, it launches a 48-hour remodeling of the host cells. During the first 24 hours of this cycle, a protein called RESA undertakes the ...

Medical research created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel anti-malarial drug target identified

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have identified the first reported inhibitors of a key ...

Medical research created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Malaria parasite requires a single receptor to invade human red blood cells

Researchers have today revealed a key discovery in understanding how the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells. Using a technique developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger ...

Medical research created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Discovery may help prevent chemotherapy-induced anemia

Cancer chemotherapy can cause peripheral neuropathy—nerve damage often resulting in pain and muscle weakness in the arms and legs. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered ...

Medical research created May 05, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One step closer to understanding biology behind genetic variants linked to blood cell traits

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge have unpicked genetic variants that affect the formation of blood cells. They found that around a third of ...

Genetics created Apr 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The surprising ability of blood stem cells to respond to emergencies

A research team of Inserm, CNRS and MDC lead by Michael Sieweke of the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy (CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université) and Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, ...

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