Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using a unique procedure for stem cell transplantation from... Read more
Malaria parasites invade human red blood cells, they then disrupt them and infect others. Researchers at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have now d... Read more
Whitehead Institute scientists have genetically and enzymatically modified red blood cells to carry a range of valuable payloads—from drugs, to vaccines, to imaging agents—for delivery to sp... Read more
“Patients feel better about getting their own blood, and recycling is also more cost effective.” Patients whose own red blood cells are recycled and given back to them during heart sur... Read more
Wellcome Trust-funded stem cell research has produced red blood cells fit for transfusion into humans, paving the way for the mass production of blood It is the stuff of gothic science ficti... Read more
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed an unprecedented approach to restore nitric oxide (NO) to donated blood, a breakthrough that could dramatic... Read more
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a “nanosponge” capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream – including to... Read more
Scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and more importantly, found a... Read more
“If localized drug delivery is an important goal, then nanospheres will fail” Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs that will allow drug-carrying nanopa... Read more
Automatically detect cells within seconds Ordinarily, red blood cells should look like a disc with a medium-sized dimple on the top and bottom. If that dimple is either too large or too smal... Read more
The research team cautions that the work, done only in the laboratory, is years away from clinical use in patients Using a patient’s own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have c... Read more