Sentences with phrase «with human red blood cells»

The problem with using meters designed for humans is that they were designed to work with human red blood cells which are larger than dog and cat red blood cells.

Not exact matches

First x object was created out of nothing, then combined with other things created out of nothing, then magically an atom, yhen a cell, a molecule, then bacteria, single cell creatures, followed by simple sea creatures with organs, then more advanced creatures, next red blooded mammals, then primates, and finally human.

Their major hurdle: to come up with a replacement for hemoglobin (an iron - enriched protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) that can be directly introduced into the human circulatory system.

The researchers created the nanosponges by separating the membranes of human red blood cells from their internal contents and stabilizing the membranes with an engineered core designed to absorb the toxins produced by pathogenic bacteria.

Human red blood cells are usually disc - shaped with a central dimple but conditions such as sickle - cell anaemia alter their shape.

Researchers have discovered that protection from the most severe form of malaria is linked with natural variation in human red blood cell genes.

These mice have their hemoglobin genes removed and replaced with the mutated human version, saddling them with many of the same problems as human sufferers, including immature, short - lived, and sickle - shaped red blood cells; anemia; reduced blood flow; and an enlarged spleen.

«What makes it particularly interesting is that the region we can show is associated with protection happens to be right up against a set of genes we know are related to how malaria invades the red blood cell,» study author Dominic Kwiatkowski of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics told The Post.

By examining the results of genome - wide association studies (GWAS) in conjunction with experiments on mouse and human red blood cells (RBCs), researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish have identified the protein cyclin D3 as regulating the number of cell divisions RBC progenitors undergo, which ultimately affects the resulting size and quantity of RBCs.