Sentences with phrase «blood from»

A nurse draws blood from newborn Isabel Undley at the Santa Monica - UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Indeed, it focuses on what these researchers see as the overly broad definition of the term «invasive,» which they note would prohibit taking blood from animals or using anesthesia.

Doppler can't distinguish flowing blood from surrounding tissue unless it's moving quickly, however, which makes minor blood vessels invisible.

The Seattle test needs only a sample of saliva or blood from the father and blood from the mother.

Molecular archaeologist Tom Loy of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, analyzed blood from Ötzi's arrows, knife, and coat and found DNA from four separate people — not including the ice man himself.

When mosquitoes suck blood from people with malaria, they are more likely to develop an infection if their victim is taking antibiotics

Relying on tests that used blood from Pandemrix recipients, the study authors showed it triggered antibodies that not only attack the virus but also bind to hypocretin receptors, potentially killing them.

Hye and his colleagues analysed 26 proteins in blood from 1,148 people, including 476 people with Alzheimer's, 220 with mild cognitive impairment and 452 elderly healthy controls.

The scientists drew blood from old mice, whose supply of T cells was depleted, and isolated immune cells.

In order for a cancer cell to enter the brain, it must first bind to the cells which line the structure separating the blood from the brain which is called the blood - brain barrier (BBB).

New findings cast doubt on research that attempted to explain why the muscles of an old animal can be rejuvenated with a dose of blood from a young animal.

She suffered recurrent blockages in the hepatic portal vein, which drains blood from the gut and spleen into the liver.

The winged creatures enter people's homes at night and suck blood from the youngsters» face or fingers.

(The published paper reports data on only 68 children, apparently because researchers weren't able to obtain enough blood from some of them.)

In the 1970s Devries would catch as many as 500 adults in a season as part of his research into the proteins that keep their blood from freezing.

He may find clues in the samples of air, water and blood from the crew that were «exported» from Biosphere 2 before the oxygen was turned on last week.

Committees are always on the lookout for fresh blood from enthusiastic, energetic newcomers!»

Karl Landsteiner discovered blood types in 1901 by observing that blood from people of different types would clot when mixed together.

When Dillon and colleagues used a global proteomics approach to compare all proteins in the blood from a subset of the patients, CRP emerged with the strongest association to postoperative delirium.

Your article on transfusions of blood from young donors possibly reversing senility (20 October, p 10) sparked a long - forgotten memory...

One of the fundamental challenges in treating brain cancer with drugs is what is known as the blood - brain barrier, a membrane that separates circulating blood from the brain extracellular fluid in the central nervous system.

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

For the first experiment, she drew blood from a couple of snakes, fed them a big rodent meal, then took another sample.

Part of the issue was settled when Cecilia Riquelme, a postdoc in Leinwand's lab, drew blood from recently fed pythons and applied it to a dish of living rat heart cells.

Conotruncal defects are abnormalities in the heart's outflow tracts — the pathways that carry blood from the heart to its connected arteries.

The researchers disqualified data from patients who received blood from both men and women — and because men can donate blood more often than women, the pool was already skewed male, he notes.

Likewise, sequencing blood from mosquitoes or leeches, known as invertebrate DNA (iDNA) sampling, can reveal which species they have been feeding on.

Finally, safety testing was done on blood from hemophiliac patients.

To assess risk, Thomas Adamkiewicz, codirector of the Hemoglobinopathy / Genomics Training Program at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, surveyed four medical centers and found that seven children with sickle - cell disease had been treated with umbilical cord blood from unrelated donors.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

Simple as a home pregnancy kit, RDTs need just one drop of blood from a finger prick to detect the malaria parasite.

Now, more mosquitoes are drawing blood from a rat that carries a virus dangerous to humans.

The common vampire bat is widely distributed in Latin America, from Southern Mexico to Northern Chile, Brazil and Uruguay and often feeds on blood from domestic animals, such as cattle.

Apart from feeding on domestic animals, vampire bats occasionally took blood from wild tapirs, so the method may be useful for determining the distribution of elusive mammal prey.

One of the fundamental challenges in treating brain cancer with drugs is what is known as the blood - brain barrier that separates circulating blood from the brain extracellular fluid in the central nervous system.

The team found that the blood of Tibetans had more than 10 times the concentration of biologically active nitric oxide breakdown products, such as nitrate and nitrite, than did blood from people who lived at sea level, signifying a high level of nitric oxide in their bloodstreams.

«Our research has demonstrated unequivocally that the AP2 - G transcription - factor protein is essential for flipping the switch that initiates the transformation of malaria parasites in the blood from the asexual stage to the critical sexual stage of their life cycle,» Llinás said.

In our hands were bottles of orange Fanta and Three Horses beer, coated in congealed blood from the zebu meat next to which they were stored.

Scientists had known for decades that wing lice occasionally attach themselves to the hippoboscid fly, an insect that sips blood from many different species of birds.

By extracting blood from the stomach of engorged mosquitoes, Theodore Andreadis and his colleagues found that 40 percent of the infected mosquitoes had feasted on the blood of the American robin, a species that can carry the virus without showing symptoms.

Then, they collected blood from healthy volunteers and filtered out the plasma containing LDL particles.

To understand how these multi-colored lesions originated they examined blood from these mice and found that tumor cells in circulation frequently occurred as clusters comprised of different colored cancer cells.

They found that their observations from animal models held true in that the average length of all the DNA pieces present in the blood from melanoma patients was 20 - 50 base pairs shorter compared to the DNA pieces in blood from healthy volunteers.

All study participants received at least one transplant of islets injected into the portal vein, the major vessel that carries blood from the intestine into the liver.

Vials of blood from the 1960s may help resolve why women without a family history still developed breast cancer

Jacobs said the study focused on minority children to show that chemical exposure is ubiquitous, building on 2005 research on cord blood from 10 anonymous babies.

The researchers tested blood samples taken from four people who had been infected with Zika virus and compared it to blood from five people known not to have the virus.

Researchers collected umbilical cord blood at birth and blood from the children at ages 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a life - threatening condition in which blood leaks from the aorta, the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.

In each of the three cases, the victims received blood from someone who went on to develop vCJD between 18 and 40 months after donating blood, which shows that apparently healthy blood donors can pose a threat of infection, at least in the late stages of incubation.