Blood Weekly

Blood Banking - Optimized method filters buffy coats as a replacement for standard buffy coats

Blood Banking - Sample errors account for majority of near-miss events in blood transfusions

Cardiac Allograft - Lymphoid sequestration of alloreactive CD4 cells promotes cardiac allograft survival

Stem Cell Transplantation - HLA-DPB1 matching status in HSCT associated with increased risk of disease relapse

Stem Cell Transplantation - p18(INK4C) deletion results in improved long-term HSC engraftment

Alcoholic Hepatitis - ADAMTS13 may contribute to multiorgan failure in alcoholic hepatitis

Alcoholic Hepatitis - Severe alcoholic hepatitis ascertained in Japan

Angiology - Report on U.S. angiography labs shows higher budgets for capital equipment, less for film

Antioxidant Research - Mitochondrial targeted antioxidants may offer a new therapeutic direction

Arthroplasty - Wound compression reduces blood loss after total hip replacement

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia - Preoperative dutasteride may reduce intraoperative bleeding during transurethral prostate surgery

Bioreactor - Model accurately predicts dissolved oxygen consumption within a hepatic fiber bioreactor

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Allogeneic BMT and patient eligibility based on psychosocial criteria

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Use of alternative donor transplants in children with early Ph+ ALL encouraged

Burkitt Lymphoma - Expression of BIC and miR-155 is not a common finding in Burkitt lymphoma

Business & Finance - Advate achieves one billion unit milestone

Cancer Diagnostics - Positron emission tomography used to detect bone marrow involvement in lymphoma

Cancer Incidence - Incidence of cancer around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol analyzed

Cancer Research - Perchloroethylene exposure affects various pathways involved in cancer induction

Cancer Therapy - Sirolimus reduces risk of cancer in kidney transplant patients, published study shows

Cancer Vaccine - Commercial launch of telomerase-immortalized cell line through ATCC announced

Cardiology - Data advance knowledge in cardiology research

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia - Test launched to monitor Gleevec resistance

Cloning - Mouse cloning improved by trichostatin a treatment after somatic nuclear transfer

Cloning - Nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells improve cloning from somatic cells

Collaborations - Deal signed with University of Nebraska-Lincoln for drug delivery system

Colorectal Cancer - Mutations spread in the normal colon by crypt fission

Cytomegalovirus - Fast track status granted to maribavir for prevention of cytomegalovirus infection

DNA Research - Fragmented nucleosomal DNA unrelated to caspase-3 mRNA in lymphoma and myeloma

Diagnostics - Three-year Novation agreement for microbiology blood culture instruments and media signed

Diet & Nutrition - Red grapefruit appears to lower cholesterol, fight heart disease

Disease Associations - Incidence of detecting pulmonary embolisms with CT in oncology patients analyzed

Disease Associations - Insulin resistance is associated with steatosis in chronic hepatitis C

Drug Development - Dasatinib may affect neoplasms associated with gain-of-function KIT mutations

Drug Development - The cyclolignan picropodophyllin may treat multiple myeloma

Drug Safety - Aprotinin reduces blood loss and thrombosis risk in off-pump heart bypass surgery

Drug Safety - Imatinib mesylate effective in CML in late chronic and advanced phase and after SCT relapse

Finance - Cardiology devices maker reports new $20 million stock repurchase program

Finance - Maker of blood processing systems reports Q2 2006 revenues of $3,127,000, up 6% from year ago

Genetics & Genomics - Gene expression patterns correlate with early progression to fibrosis in liver transplants

Hematology - A vascular wall protein inhibits collagen-induced platelet aggregation

Hematology - Thrombin autoantibodies target both of its cryptic exosites

Hemodialysis - Reports describe recent advances in hemodialysis research

Hepatitis C Virus - Early preservation injury may predict poor outcome after liver transplantation

Hypertension - Recent studies add new data to hypertension research

Kaposi Sarcoma Risk Factors - Kaposi sarcoma risk higher in HIV/AIDS than in transplant recipients

Keratoconjunctivitis - Treating childhood phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis with topical cyclosporine A reported effective