Tag: red blood cells

May 4, 2020

Through serendipity, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health considerably reduced the toxicity of a potential antibiotic against the most feared drug-resistant bacteria, while also improving its stability in fighting infections. The new antibiotic -; administered […]

August 9, 2019

Encapsulating two drugs with different properties into nanovesicles surrounded by antibodies can greatly improve their delivery and efficacy, according to a study led by Xavier Fernández Busquets, director of the joint Nanomalaria unit at the Institute for Bionengineering of Catalonia […]

April 3, 2018

New research, published in the journal Laboratory Investigation, finds dramatic and almost immediate changes in the blood vessels of healthy men after they have consumed a single high-fat meal. It is well known that a diet high in saturated fat […]

March 17, 2017

New research has recommended that those living in heavily polluted cities such as London, could benefit by supplementing B vitamins. A study published by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlighted that taking a supplement containing B12 […]

June 28, 2016

Red blood cells must be small and flexible enough to squeeze through the tiniest capillaries of the body, where they deliver oxygen to surrounding cells. In the late 1960s, scientists proposed that the minute dimensions of these capillaries, which are […]

June 3, 2016

Eight days. That’s how long it takes for skin cells to reprogram into red blood cells. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, have successfully identified the four genetic keys that […]

June 19, 2015

It’s World Sickle Cell Day. How much of the difference in access to care and research dollars for sickle cell disease is due to racism and economic differences, I wondered, especially framed now by the racial tensions fueled by the […]