Blood-repelling surface might finally put an end to clotting in medical implants
The resulting material could spare thousands from having to deal with blood clots.
Tag: blood
Paper centrifuge can separate blood into plasma in under two minutes, all manually. It weighs 2 grams and costs ¢20
Human ingenuity knows no limit.
Vampires might be on to something: blood from young humans rejuvenates old mice
It's the plot of a dark vampire movie.
Just days in the mountains can improve your blood for months
Just a few hours in the mountains can significantly change your bloodstream
A smart brain is not only big, but blood thirsty too
The brain needs a lot of blood to be smart.
Wearable artificial kidney may change how we perform dialysis forever
Dialysis on the go may soon become reality.
We’ve found the genetic key to making red blood cells
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona have identified four sequences of genetic ...
XSTAT 30 syringe can plug a gunshot wound in 20 seconds flat
Gunshot wounds are really dangerous, messy things, and much more numerous than you'd think. In an attempt to reduce mortality ...
Google wants to develop needle-free blood-drawing smartwatches
Competition between tech giants is more fierce than ever, and Google is out for blood - literally.
Canadian Doctors Treats Brain Tumor in World First
The blood-brain barrier has been broken for the first time in history, and this can revolutionize some areas of cancer ...
New technique can identify any known virus in a blood sample – without fail
Ian Lipkin, a virus hunter from Columbia University, along with fellow professors Thomas Briese and Amit Kapoor have designed a ...
Blood donors in Sweden get a text message whenever they save a life
It's one of the best ideas I've read in a long time - motivating people to donate blood, and telling ...
Your smartphone will be able to tell if you have blood parasites
Scientists have managed to use a simple smartphone to test for blood parasites; the device and app was successful in ...
DNA blood test can detect Down Syndrome more accurately than standard tests
A new test analyzes the free DNA inside the blood of pregnant women to detect Down Syndrome in fetuses with ...
Google plans Magnetic Nanoparticle pill that detects diseases like Cancer
On Tuesday, Google's head of life sciences inside the company’s Google X research lab reported a new exciting project that involves ...
The origin of fever: study shows it stems from the brain
Researchers have described the mechanism of formation for a key substance that triggers fever. Image: Flickr ...
Plant-based solution makes hemophilia treatments more effective
Image: Youtube screen Patients with hemophilia are often forced to live in a bubble. Even the ...
Injecting oxygen filled particles lets you survive without breathing
Photo: Ocean Networks Canada Without oxygen, your brain would shutdown within five minutes or so and ...
New kind of artificial blood made in the land of Dracula
A team of researchers at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Transylvania) claim they have developed artificial blood which has so far ...
Ressurected mammoth has surprisingly warm blood
Using DNA preserved for 25.000 - 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth ...