N-gated Hacker News3d ago
🎉 Breaking news: Cambridge scientists have successfully defied nature by growing blood cells in a petri dish! 🧪 Apparently, playing God is just another day at the office for them. But don't worry, you can still donate to their infinite wisdom and contribute your own blood cells to their collection! 😂🔬
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells #BreakingNews #CambridgeScientists #BloodCells #Innovation #Biotechnology #HackerNews #ngated
New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

Researchers have found a new way to produce human blood cells in the lab that mimics the process in natural embryos. Their discovery holds potential to

University of Cambridge
Hacker News3d ago

New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells

#HackerNews #labgrownembryo #bloodcells #stemcells #biotechnology #research

New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

Researchers have found a new way to produce human blood cells in the lab that mimics the process in natural embryos. Their discovery holds potential to

University of Cambridge
Davva5d ago
Study finds masks lower pollution levels in blood
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/medicine-and-dentistry/fmd/research-shows-masks-can-prevent-airborne-pollutants-from-entering-bloodstream-.html
#Pollution #cars #bloodcells #masks #bancars
Research shows masks can prevent airborne pollutants from entering bloodstream

Queen Mary University of London
Show thread☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Mar 6

“lab-grown human neurons” 🧠

How?

“The neurons are made in the #lab in a process which turns #BloodCells back into stem cells — cells that can develop into many different types of #cells — which are then turned into #neurons. …[They're] grown from induced #StemCells that are generated from a small amount of #blood from volunteers,"

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Feb 15, 2024
We’ve finally found out what makes #urine yellow it comes from #bacteria metabolizing waste from #redbloodcells
#Bilirubin is orange pigment released by red #bloodcells after they die. Gut microbes use bilirubin reductase to break down bilirubin into colorless urobilinogen, which degrades into yellowish #urobilin, giving urine that infamous hue. While urobilin previously had an association with color of urine, enzyme that starts process producing urobilinogen was unknown.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/gotta-go-weve-finally-found-out-what-makes-urine-yellow/
Gotta go? We’ve finally found out what makes urine yellow

The yellow color comes from bacteria metabolizing waste from red blood cells.

Ars Technica
Technische Universität MünchenNov 29, 2023

Researchers identified a predictive #biomarker for the seriousness of a #COVID19 infection. They used a method from image-based flow #cytometry that permits the rapid analysis of interactions between large numbers of #bloodcells: http://go.tum.de/696303

#platelets

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Risk of serious COVID-19 infection can now be predicted

Researchers developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets that can help quantify the risk of a severe COVID infection.

Ele Willoughby, PhDAug 22, 2023

I am posting my linocut print ‘Blood, sweat and tears’ for the #WaterDocsARTivism challenge for the theme ‘Water is Life: Interconnection’. Printed from 8 hand-carved blocks it shows blood cells racing through an artery, a cross-section of our skin with a sweat gland, an eye with a tear & a section of ocean seawater.

🧵 1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #climateScience #water #saltWater #freshWater #bloodCells #sweat #teats #anatomy #science #MastoArt

Ele Willoughby, PhDMar 22, 2023

I made this #linocut a couple of years ago for the #printersolstice prompt "Blood, Sweat and Tears" about how we as people reflect our origines in the ocean. I thought I would share it today for #WorldWaterDay to stress that we are nothing without clean water, as we are literally mostly water ourselves.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #anatomy #bloodsweatandtears #bloodcells #sweatgland #tear #eye #seawater #saltwater #evolution #cleanWater

Technische Universität MünchenJan 23, 2023

What we can learn from blood cell chit-chat – Watch Prof. Oliver Hayden's TEDxTUM talk: http://go.tum.de/846903

#thrombosis #bloodcells

What we can learn from blood cell chit-chat

23 January 2023 | TEDxTUM Talk by Prof. Oliver Hayden

۞immµnologẏ۞Dec 21, 2022

RXR, The Cell Protein That Keeps Blood Stem Cells Young & Fit:
Researchers have shown that the retinoid and unsaturated fatty acid sensor RXR is a key protein in the maintenance of a balanced production of the different types of blood cells

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221215104602.htm

#molecularbiology #stemcells #bloodcells #scientificresearch

RXR, the cell protein that keeps blood stem cells young and fit: Study shows that this regulatory action reduces the risk of developing myeloproliferative syndromes as the body ages

Researchers have shown that the retinoid and unsaturated fatty acid sensor RXR is a key protein in the maintenance of a balanced production of the different types of blood cells.

ScienceDaily