Category: Blood Substitutes
- Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial ()
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial, UK researchers say. Tiny amounts – equivalent to a couple of spoonfuls – are being tested to see how it performs inside the body. The bulk of blood transfusions will […]
- Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups ()
The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses. The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something wrong with the fetus’s blood, so they decided to perform an emergency C-section many weeks before the […]
- Blood substitute repairs damaged organs hours after heart stops ()
Use of an artificial blood substitute can reverse cell damage caused by lack of oxygen and could make more organs available for transplants, treat heart attacks and strokes and even reverse death. A procedure that reverses cell damage after the heart has stopped pumping blood may lead to more organ transplants and better treatments for […]
- The lugworm, frequently used as bait, could save human lives ()
For centuries, the only use humans found for the lugworm — dark pink, slimy and inedible — was on the end of a fish hook. But the invertebrates’ unappreciated status is about to change. Their blood, say French researchers, has an extraordinary ability to load up with life-giving oxygen. Harnessing it for human needs could […]
- Nanomedicine site ()
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/artcell/ Artificial cells, blood substitutes,synthetic cell nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, cell encapsulation, gene therapy, enzyme therapy, cell therapy, tissue engineering,dult stem cells, bioencapsulation, nanocapsules, synthetic cellnanotechnology,synthetic cell nanobiotechnology, microcapsules, drug delivery, liver support, ARTIFICIAL CELLS for general audience (1) WHAT? WHEN? WHY? HOW? Artificial Cells Click here, (2) Inventor of artificial cells voted “THE GREATEST MCGILLIAN” […]
- Thomas M.S. Chang – Emeritus Professor ()
Artificial cells in biotechnology and medicine with emphasis on potential applications in medicine Different types of artificial cells are being investigated for many medical conditions. Contents of artificial cells include enzymes, hemoglobin, cells, genetically engineered cells and other biotechnological materials. The size ranges from cellular dimensions to the higher millimetre ranges (for cell culture and […]
- Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Therapeutics: A Review ()
Despite the exhaustive search for an acceptable substitute to erythrocyte transfusion, neither chemical-based products such as perfluorocarbons nor hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers have succeeded in providing a reasonable alternative to allogeneic blood transfusion. However, there remain scenarios in which blood transfusion is not an option, due to patient’s religious beliefs, inability to find adequately cross-matched erythrocytes, […]
- New Mathematical Model Shows Transfusions of Blood Substitutes Can Treat Anemic Patients, Solve Global Shortage ()
Researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) developed a new mathematical model of the body’s interacting physiological and biochemical processes that shows transfusion of blood substitutes could treat anemic patients and be more readily available, solving global blood shortage. Global Blood Shortage Blood transfusion is important because it saves lives […]
- ARTIFICIAL BLOOD SUBSTITUTES – Update on the Promise of a Medical Breakthrough – ()
Blood substitutes — also called oxygen therapeutics or hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) — offer the promise of new and important life-saving medical treatments. Blood is a vital, life-sustaining fluid that picks up oxygen in the lungs and then carries it to the heart and the rest of the body. Blood performs many functions such as […]
- UK breakthrough: Scientists set to revolutionise military medicine with new man-made blood ()
The project – expected to be war-ready within the decade – will revolutionise military medicine and raise the survivability chances of seriously injured troops, It comes as the Ministry of Defence continues to learn lessons from the bloody seven-year Afghanistan campaign, in which around 2,600 soldiers – one in three of those injured – required […]
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- Artificial Blood Substitutes Market – Insights into how contours of market will change in coming years ()
The global artificial blood substitutes market is predicted to register stellar growth rate in the forthcoming years. The presence of a large patient population that requires blood transfusion during surgeries, trauma, and for other blood disorders, which remains unmet due to shortage of blood supply has necessitated creation of artificial blood substitutes. https://www.biospace.com/article/artificial-blood-substitutes-market-insights-into-how-contours-of-market-will-change-in-coming-years/