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The blood veins in our hands echoed a course of water traces on the Earth.
Sickle-cell disease affects the red blood cells, which transport oxygen from the lungs to all the tissues in the body.
To perform this vital task, red blood cells are filled with hemoglobin proteins to carry oxygen molecules.
These proteins float independently inside the red blood cell’s pliable, doughnut-like shape, keeping the cells flexible enough to accommodate even the tiniest of blood vessels.
These red blood cells are harder and stickier, and no longer flow smoothly through blood vessels.
Worse still, sickled red blood cells also don’t survive very long— just 10 or 20 days, versus a healthy cell’s 4 months.
This short lifespan means that patients live with a constantly depleted supply of red blood cells; a condition called sickle-cell anemia.
Spread by a parasite found in local mosquitoes, malaria uses red blood cells as incubators to spread quickly and lethally through the bloodstream.
However, the same structural changes that turn red blood cells into roadblocks also make them more resistant to malaria.
And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function.
What drives someone to kill in cold blood?
Their throat and blood vessels are uniquely adapted to pump blood and to swallow food against the force of gravity.
To establish the Fifth Sun, Lord Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent,” had gone to the underworld and returned with the bones of earlier people, nourishing them with his own blood to create new life.
Meanwhile, Tecciztecatl flaunted his riches, using magnificent jade spines and branches adorned with iridescent quetzal feathers for his own blood offering.
Nanahuatl replied that just as he had sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun, he now needed the nourishing blood of the other gods in order to move through the sky.
You should also keep your blood pressure down, because chronic high blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.
It’s an increasingly common sight in hospitals around the world: a nurse measures our height, weight, blood pressure, and attaches a glowing plastic clip to our finger.
How can a plastic clip learn something about our blood… without a blood sample?
Rather, they allow some light to actually pass through our skin, muscles, and blood vessels.
When the LED shines into your finger, oxygen-free hemoglobin in your blood vessels absorbs the red light more strongly than its oxygenated counterpart.
But any two patients will have different-sized blood vessels in their fingers.
So contrasting the absorbance of red to infrared light provides a chemical fingerprint to eliminate the blood vessel size effect.
We even captured the blood flow and how my face changes when I make expressions.
Blood flow is redirected towards only the most essential organs like the heart, lungs, and brain, which rely on reserve oxygen stored in blood and muscle.
And your blood vessels dilated to get blood to your extremities.
Insulin pumps improve the lives of many of the 415 million people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking and blood testing.
Third, each and every one of us can be and should be a white blood cell in this immune system.
In a human being, down in here it could be: make blood cells, start cancer.
But mosquitoes are able to do that because they have a highly sophisticated sense of smell, and they're able to see through all this sort of odour sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal.
Swedish firm Uppsala Biomedical, more seriously, makes a mobile phone add-on that can process blood tests in the field, uploading the data, displaying the results.
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