Sentences with phrase «than blood cells»

Engineering nimble robots that are smaller than blood cells is extremely challenging.

MicroHexon has developed new nano - bot technology, fully autonomous and no larger than a 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).»

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.

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.

This «liquid gold,» which is often yellow but may be clear, resembles blood more than milk in that it contains protective white blood cells capable of attacking harmful bacteria.

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.

It found that infants born by C - section had more DNA methylation in their white blood cells than babies delivered vaginally.

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.

The study, published 13 June 2013, focused on two serious adverse events: postpartum hemorrhage and manual removal of the placenta, both of which are life - threatening, and also included admission to intensive care, eclampsia, and more than four packed cells in a blood transfusion.

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

Other kinds of congenital anomalies that are sometimes found with this condition are, as previously mentioned, Down Syndrome, shorter intestines than normal, lower birth weight, and an imbalance of electrolytes, which are the elements in the blood, tissue and cell fluid needed to help the person balance their energy.

So hold on tight, I'm gonna share EVERYTHING I've learned so far about cord blood with you... starting with this enlightening link on the general benefits... including the fact that «To date it can treat more than 80 diseases using Haematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) transplants, including leukemia, sickle cell anemia, and metabolic disorders.&raCell (HSC) transplants, including leukemia, sickle cell anemia, and metabolic disorders.&racell anemia, and metabolic disorders.»

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.

Cord blood stem cells are also often a better option for medical treatments than bone marrow, another option often used in stem cell therapies.

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.

However, since there are simply not enough stem cells in cord blood alone to treat an adult sized patient, Americord offers a proprietary process for storing the entire placenta and preserving up to 10 times more stem cells than cord blood banking alone.

I hear Americord is coming out with a breakthrough in stem cell preservation that is much better than cord blood banking.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

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

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

Reprogramming is a long process (about one to two weeks) and largely inefficient, with typically less than one percent of the primary skin or blood cells successfully completing the journey to becoming an iPSC.

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

They found 60 per cent fewer blood vessels surrounding tumour - like tissue grown from Down's stem cells than those from other volunteers.

First, the trial tested GM - CSFs which act on more than one blood cell lineage and are not commonly used nowadays.

The trophoblasts along with blood vessel cells were added to small dextran beads that were then spun around in a container filled with cell culture fluid, creating shear stress and rotational forces to better mimic the environment at the maternal - fetal interface than static cell - culture systems.

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

The metabolism of bone cells determines how much sugar they use; if the bone cells consume more sugar than normal, this can lower the glucose level in the blood.

In a one - in - a-million event, only slightly more likely than running into a flying reindeer, the coral DNA might have moved from her blood into a virus - like genetic element that transferred it into the egg cell that formed Rudolph.

Douay, for his part, is not surprised it has taken more than a century for science to get even to this point, where the future of subbing in stem cells for blood products still remains little more than a reverie.

This is how treatments based on a type of white blood cell called T - cells are curing some cancers, rather than just slowing their advance (see «Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells «-RRB-.

«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.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

Ten years after infection with HIV, a typical person has progressed to where tens if not hundreds of thousands of copies of the virus can be found in a single milliliter of their blood and more than three quarters of their CD4 immune cells are destroyed, if they have not started drug therapy.

The team injected two milliliters of the stem - cell derived blood cells back into the patient — an amount far smaller than would be needed in a typical transfusion.

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.

But what [was] really interesting in this study of the sled dogs, of Larry the sled dog in particular, was the discovery that some of these high performance dogs appear to have the ability to draw fat directly out of their and blood right into their muscle cells and immediately burn it that way, which is a more efficient way than normally what you'd see.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

White blood cells called T - cells tend to attack a wider range of invaders than antibodies.

So far Kajander and his colleagues have found the nanobacteria in cattle blood, in 80 % of samples of commercial cow serum in which mammalian cells are grown in the lab, and in the blood of nearly 6 % of more than 1000 Finnish adults tested.

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

More than 2 million units of platelets — the blood cells responsible for clotting — are transfused each year, with cancer patients receiving an important share of them.

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.

Just like real blood cells the pretenders can squeeze through spaces much smaller than their own diameter and absorb and release substances to order, including oxygen.

By taking the age of patients» blood cells into account, the researchers» model, when tested in more than 200 diabetic patients, reduced the error rate from one in three patients with the standard blood test to an error rate of one in 10.

«They can squeeze through capillaries smaller than their own diameter, just like real blood cells.»

Test tube experiments showed that white blood cells with the mutation responded more strongly to Il - 4 than did normal cells.