Sentences with phrase «than a red blood»

But a cloud droplet that is just slightly wider than a red blood cell may contain only one such particle.

The entire system, no bigger than a red blood cell, has myriad technological applications.

These 25 - nanometer - wide tubes — thousands of times smaller than a red blood cell — are found in every cell in plants and animals.

The researchers were able to rapidly generate uniform heat throughout frozen tissues by mixing tiny silica - coated iron oxide nanoparticles, each one with a diameter 150 times smaller than a red blood cell, into the cryopreservation solution used for vitrification.

By comparison, that's about 15 times smaller than a red blood cell, and Zhang said shrinking an infrared light source to such a small scale could open doors to new kinds of chemical sensing and molecular imaging that aren't possible with today's state - of - the - art nanoscale infrared spectroscopy.

A nanometer is many times smaller than a red blood cell, a bacterium, a virus and even smaller than a cell membrane.

Rather than all their red blood cells being affected, those with SCT carry a mix of affected red blood cells and normal ones.

One of their machines was described as being «three times larger than a red blood cell and three times smaller than a large neuron» when folded.

This unique composition and the fact that MP molecules are 5 times smaller than a red blood cell makes it able to penetrate and nourish cells in a unique way.

But Wait, There's More to a PCV Than Red Blood Cells The remainder of the volume in the capillary tube is a few percentages of white blood cells and platelets in a section called the buffy coat.

It's very helpful with leaky gut because its molecule is smaller than a red blood cell and will supply amino acids, micronutrients and protein while your dog's gut is healing.

Administration and supervision of approved immunizations other than red blood cell immunizations.

Administration and supervision of approved immunizations other than red blood cell...

Not exact matches

«We need red blood cells to live (the same way a business needs profits to live), but the purpose of life is more than to make red blood cells (the same way the purpose of business is more than simply to generate profits).»

It is more like: «Look, I don't know if you're a pyramid scheme or what, but some people think you are, so I want my money back,» which is less an assertion of fraud on Herbalife's part than it is an assertion of red - blooded American litigiousness on the plaintiffs» part.

The Red Cross supplies our hospital partners in Puerto Rico with blood products collected in the continental U.S. With local blood collections on the island significantly impacted by Hurricane Maria, the Red Cross has provided more than 1,000 blood and platelet products to help hospitals the Red Cross does not typically supply.

If children and infants were killed it was quick and better than a life of live sacrifice in red hot arms or growing up blood thirsty and wicked.

The Blue Ridge Mountains where the bison graze are more than 3,000 feet above sea level, and Dr. King feels that helps the bison the same way it creates more red blood cells in athletes training at elevation.

The caramelized fennel with its barely - there anise flavor, and the roasted sweet red onions go so wonderfully with the bright citrus taste of the blood oranges and clementines, and what better accompaniment to seafood than citrus!

And for the best bait take the black blood from a sheep's heart and flour and honey; moisten them with water until a little softer than paste, and smear on the red worm.

Charlton still has Red Devils blood running through his veins and we think that he would love to see a fellow United legend take charge, with the only player to have made more appearances for the club than himself a prime candidate to succeed Van Gaal.

Therefore, newborn babies will have more red blood cells than adults, and thus more will break down at any given time.

If the baby is premature, or stressed from a difficult birth, or the infant of a diabetic mother, or more than the usual number of red blood cells are breaking down (as can happen in blood incompatibility), the level of bilirubin in the blood may rise higher than usual levels.

An antibiotic may be needed if a fever is present for longer than 24 hours or if you are showing signs of a bacterial infection such as a cracked nipple, blood in your milk, or red streaks at the infection site.

Your baby's blood contains much fewer white blood cells than red ones, although your baby's body can already increase production of white blood cells to defend itself against infection.

A newborn has more red blood cells than his body needs, and often, when a baby's immature liver can't process them quickly enough, a yellow pigment called bilirubin (a by - product of the red blood cells) builds up in the blood.

However, there may be other conditions that cause an exaggeration of this type of jaundice, such as a more rapid than normal breakdown of red blood cells.

However, there may be other conditions which cause an exaggeration of this type of jaundice, such as a more rapid than normal breakdown of red blood cells.

Most babies are born with more red blood cells than they need for life outside the womb.

In such case, if the red blood cells break down faster than the bilirubin can be metabolized, it can lead to as serious buildup known as hyperbilirubinemia.

Newborns have more red blood cells than adults do at birth because before birth it's the placenta that's kind of breaking down the blood cells and when the baby's born they kind of have to do it on their own and so, there's this fetal blood cells that have to breakdown and be eliminated from the body.

The composition of your blood also changes, creating a higher ratio of plasma to red blood cells than in non-pregnant women.

Here the vascular system, rather than appearing in a familiar blood - red, is represented by the color green.

(By contrast, red blood cells can be refrigerated for more than a month, and plasma can be frozen for a year.)

It sounds stranger than fiction: particles the size of red blood cells but weighing a metric ton, slicing through Earth like bullets through cotton.

«Even something as seemingly simple as red blood cells that don't have a nucleus evolved a structure and a function that is much more complicated than we can perceive by looking under the microscope,» says Jason Acker, associate director of development for Canadian Blood Servblood cells that don't have a nucleus evolved a structure and a function that is much more complicated than we can perceive by looking under the microscope,» says Jason Acker, associate director of development for Canadian Blood ServBlood Services.

A nanometer is less than 1/1, 000 the size of a red blood cell and about 1/20, 000 the diameter of a human hair.

Cloaked in a red blood cell sheath, more than 3,000 of these toxin - hungry nanosponges can slide through the bloodstream on the prowl for poisonous material.

They also found that 1,4 - BQ was more toxic to HSCs, myeloid progenitors (which give rise to red blood cells and platelets, among others) and B cell lymphoid progenitors than it was to T cell lymphoid progenitors.

In fact, tests undertaken on red blood cells showed that the star - shaped polymer dosage rate would need to be increased by a factor of greater than 100 to become toxic.

It is conceivable, he says, that younger men might have different diseases triggering their need for a transfusion than older men, which might make them more vulnerable to problems incorporating women's red blood cells.

If oxygenated haemoglobin is injected directly into the bloodstream — rather than as a component of red blood cells in a whole - blood transfusion — it will not release the oxygen unless triggered to do so artificially.

Sickle - cell anemia, a dangerous deformity of hemoglobin in red blood cells, is not limited to blacks any more than cystic fibrosis is to whites.

«We can tell through high - speed imaging that cancer cells tend to be larger than white or red blood cells.

In 2008, researchers led by YongKeun Park and Monica Diez - Silva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that red blood cells vibrated less when they were infected with the malaria parasite, apparently because the infection made the cells stiffer than normal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0806100105).

By revising CPOE, Vanderbilt was able to reduce red blood cell transfusions by more than 30 percent — from 675 units per 1,000 discharges in 2011 down to 432 units per 1,000 discharges in 2015.

Ricklin explains that the team's findings, «further support the concept that complement inhibition at the level of C3 rather than C5 will hopefully confer better therapeutic benefits for PNH patients because it will prevent destruction of red blood cells both inside and outside of vessels.»

Some of the tumors were less than 300 microns in diameter (a single red blood cell, by comparison, is about 7 microns across), and the new MRI also detected ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor to invasive cancer.

Bone marrow failure disease patients are at risk for developing iron overload if they have had more than 20 units of packed red blood cells.

Rather than soft, pliable red blood cells that travel easily through blood vessels, the sickle cell mutation leaves patients with red blood cells that can become brittle and banana - shaped.