Blood money
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first successful human-to-human blood transfusion, conducted by James Blundell, an English obstetrician working just across the Thames from The Economist’s
Blood
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Government policy wrong, says scientist
The government is on the wrong track and it's infected blood, not sexual intercourse, which transmits AIDS in the country
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Determination of arsenic in whole blood by graphite platform-in-furnace atomic absorption spectrometry with nitric acid de-proteinisation and nickel fortification
The effect on the charring temperature of arsenic in blood with wall and platform atomisations of a number of matrix modifiers, such as cobalt, copper, nickel and palladium, has been studied. Based on
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Science & Technology - Briefs
evolution First blood Palaeontologists dug up a dinosaur bone buried for 80 million years in Montana, usa. The find yielded blood and bone cells and collagen protein
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Hook in the gut
Scientists are striving to develop a vaccine against hookworm that is rampant in the Third World
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Vector cells
A patient's own cells could be used to carry vital drugs to diseased organs. Researchers in Ireland are developing a device, which loads red blood cells with a drug, then injects the cells back into
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Blood cells from stem cells
Scientists have demonstrated that undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells can be turned into blood cells. The work, conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, demonstrates that
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Venting the spleen
A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder
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Blow hot, blow cold
So, were dinosaurs warm blooded or not?
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Intoxicating experience
It is a familiar experience for the tippler. You have one too many drinks, which include strong beers, and every thing turns fuzzy, the room begins to spin and soon you are flat on the floor. Though
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HIV fears
HIV infected persons with low virus levels in their blood are less likely to pass the virus to partners