Part of Jordan Eagles’s Blood Equality – Illuminations, 2017, an installation that uses imaged blood on plexiglass.
Contemporary artists from Judy Chicago to Stelarc have made art from blood. And an exhibition at Melbourne’s new Science Gallery addresses our ambivalent attitudes to this life-giving fluid.
The most important blood borne viruses for human health are the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.
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Why is it only some viruses are transmissible by blood, and how does the virus actually move from person to person?
Blood permeates every tissue in the body, meaning just a few spoonfuls can tell us a lot about our health.
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Blood is perhaps the most important window through which we can peer into a person’s health or illness.
Our blood flows through our every organ and gives us life. So problems can have wide-ranging consequences.
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An overview of the most common problems in our blood: bleeding disorders, clotting disorders and cancer.
We know about A, B and O - but there are hundreds of other blood groups.
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Why do we have blood groups and how are they discovered?
Our blood has more functions than we probably realise - all vital for life.
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Blood transports nutrients, hormones, proteins, vitamins and minerals around our body.
Blood transfusions save lives - at least they do now. Here’s how an ancient experiment became a routine life saver.
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Here we look at how blood transfusions started as an experiment four centuries ago, and became the modern-day life saver they are.
We know blood is vital for life, do we know why?
Illuminations: Blood Equality by Jordan Eagles (USA) Image credit: David Meanix and courtesy of artist as part of Science Gallery Melbourne’s BLOOD exhibition
Everything you never knew about the red stuff in your veins.