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Blood – Analysis and Comment
Scabs, ear wax and eye crusts might sound, and even look, gross but they do essential work keeping our bodies clear of infection
Your blood contains a wealth of information about the state of your health. Analyzing the levels of each component is an important part of diagnosis.
Inhaling air is how you get the oxygen your body needs to turn your food into energy. Other living things use different strategies.
Blood isn’t sterile, and analyzing the bacteria in it could help assess the health of fish and prevent the collapse of their populations.
Horseshoe crabs play a unique role in medicine, but they’re also ecologically important in their home waters along the Atlantic coast. Can regulators balance the needs of humans and nature?
Centenarians tend to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards.
Lots of young teens and first-time tampon users are intimidated by tampons. But they’re easy once you get the hang of it.
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.
In 1983, during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the US Food and Drug Administration made the decision to ban gay men from donating blood. Now, 40 years later, it is dropping that rule.
The science behind why crossing your legs while sitting could be detrimental to your health.
Impaired insulin receptors in the blood vessels between the blood and the brain may contribute to the insulin resistance observed in Alzheimer’s disease.
Lab-grown technologies may help change the way certain human diseases are studied and treated.
A 44th blood group was recently discovered by researchers at Bristol University.
There has been a monumental policy shift in paying blood plasma donors in Canada.
Going out of your way to get grossed out might seem like a contradiction of human nature. But it serves a strong evolutionary purpose.
We calculated there was a one in 1.4 billion chance of someone contracting vCJD from a blood transfusion. And that risk will get even smaller with time.
Bed bugs are pretty much universally reviled. But a public health entomologist explains how – while potentially traumatizing to deal with – they aren’t likely to make you sick.
Your blood can hold a record of past illnesses. That information can reveal how many people have had a certain infection – like 58% of Americans having had COVID-19 by the end of February 2022.
Life-saving blood is needed for everything from treating cancers and chronic conditions to helping trauma victims. But blood donations have dropped to crisis levels during the pandemic.
Sensors that measure sweat could be coming to the market soon, but for them to be useful, we’ll need to understand more about this fluid that our body produces.
Blood plays a vital role in keeping us alive, from delivering oxygen to the body’s organs to fighting off infections.
European regulators are investigating a possible link between the vaccine and a second rare blood disorder.
Our bodies heal in some amazing ways. Scabs can be an important part of the healing process after we get a cut or a graze.
New laws due this summer will allow gay men who have had the same partner for three months or more to give blood