Artificial blood may become a common reality, thanks to the first successful transfusion of lab-grown blood into a human. A team of doctors at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, extracted hematopoietic stem cells from a volunteer’s bone marrow, and encouraged these cells to grow into red blood cells with a cocktail of growth factors.
It is estimated that around the world, 2.5 million people bleed to death each year. That’s more than die from HIV and Malaria and a lot of those deaths are pre-ventable. In many cases a rapid volume of plasma mixed with Red Blood Cells has been able to save the life in time.
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A detailed analysis of over 90,000 patients for close to 2 decades at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that your blood type might affect your risk for stroke.
Recently, I came across a beautiful and inspiring speech by Bertrand Piccard, the co-founder of solar impulse. Solar Impulse is a
Could not stop myself from posting this. I came across the below mentioned pc on Facebook a minute back:
some strange feelings cooked up in the mind on seeing the pic. A quick glance on the comments following this post and I was left gaping.
Here are some of them:
Considered to be India's Youngest freedom fighter, who died at the age of thirteen protesting against the atrocities of kingship and british, near a small village named bhuban in denkhenal district of Orissa.He was cremated at ground of Khannagar, Cuttack, in the night of an unforgettable October 10, 1938, which was mourn by freedom fighter: Baishnav Pattanayak, Ananta Pattanayak, Govinda Mohanty, Rabi Ghosh, Motilal Tripathy and Bishwanath Pasayat.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was a tireless worker, who chalked out his own unique but highly effective and efficient methods to drive the oppressive British out of Inida. Apart from being the worker he was, he had a great sense of pride and a attached a deep sense of responsibility and commitment to the challenges that lay before him. In this speech named Order Of the Day delivered by Netaji on August 26, 1943, he simply has personified the sense of responsibility of a leader.
I come back to this site often not because of the fact that it is the most active and happening site. I come back to this site because down the line I have developed a sense of comfort on this site. You can almost say that this site is my virtual home. A definition to my obscure identity.
Bengal, historically, has been the sick man of India. It has a horrible past. It all started in 1770, when approximately one third of the total population of Bengal was wiped out due to a drought. The East India Company, which had occupied Bengal five years earlier, looted the granaries, taxed rice farmers heavily, and subsidized the farming of profitable commodities like opium.
History of blood transfusion began in 1492 when Pope Innocent VII sank into coma and the blood of 3 10 year old boys was given to him through mouth. Unfortunately, all four died. During the decade of 1670’s, Dr. Jean Baptiste Denys performed several transfusions and used animal blood for humans. In 1818, Dr James Blundell performed the first successful transfusion of human blood. He transfused 4 ounces of blood from a husband to his wife.
