Could other stuff replace blood transfusions for anemia?

Blood transfusions save lives, but there's short supply. What if transfusions don't always require blood? New research indicates an alternative.

Danielle Torrent Tucker-Stanford • futurity
Oct. 26, 2021 ~7 min

Convalescent plasma offers little benefit in treating COVID-19

Convalescent plasma, once thought to be an effective way to treat people with mild to moderate COVID-19, doesn't really work, a new study shows.

Stanford • futurity
Aug. 26, 2021 ~5 min


Method uses light to measure brain blood flow

Measuring cerebral blood flow is important for diagnosing strokes, and for predicting secondary damage in hemorrhages or traumatic brain injuries.

Andy Fell-UC Davis • futurity
May 13, 2021 ~5 min

Organ-on-a-chip could personalize sickle cell treatment

An organ-on-a-chip device could offer a more personalized treatment for sickle cell disease, which affects 70,000 to 100,000 Americans.

Jennifer Reiley-Texas A&M • futurity
March 29, 2021 ~7 min

Liquid biopsy could guide therapy for colorectal cancer

Liquid biopsies can gauge the effectiveness of therapy for colorectal cancer that has begun to spread beyond the original tumor, researchers report.

Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL • futurity
Feb. 25, 2021 ~9 min

Chip ditches blood test snapshots for real-time checks

A new lab-on-a-chip device called real-time ELISA combines blood tests to provide something more like a movie than a photo.

Andrew Myers-Stanford • futurity
Dec. 24, 2020 ~7 min

Secondary blood infection linked to worse COVID-19 outcomes

People with severe COVID-19 and a secondary blood infection had longer hospital stays and poorer outcomes, research finds.

Patti Verbanas-Rutgers • futurity
Dec. 23, 2020 ~4 min

To find chronic lead exposure, map out the risk

A more precise screening index could monitor chronic lead exposure, say researchers. They started with Atlanta, but say the approach could work elsewhere.

Carol Clark-Emory • futurity
Nov. 11, 2020 ~7 min


Smoothie time? Pig blood becomes protein powder

An enzyme from papayas can turn pig blood into protein powder, report researchers. Right now, the blood ends up in animal feed.

Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen • futurity
Oct. 26, 2020 ~4 min

Early trauma leads to changes in the blood

Early trauma changes metabolites in the blood, researchers find. Those changes can be passed down to the next generation, too, experiments with mice reveal.

Rita Ziegler-Zurich • futurity
Oct. 21, 2020 ~7 min

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