Blood Weekly

Blood Banking - Transfused blood storage duration is associated with morbidity and mortality

Bone Marrow - Tumor growth impeded natural-killer-cell maturation

Cell Biology - Bone marrow stromal cell differentiation into mature osteoblasts is limited by osterix interference

Critical Care Medicine - Erythropoiesis abnormalities contribute to early-onset anemia in septic shock

Tissue Engineering - Cryopreserved vascular umbilical cord cells used to engineer viable heart valves

Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Acute myeloid leukemia risk-adapted therapy discussed

Adverse Drug Reaction - Toxicity of combination therapy detected in cirrhotic patients with hepatitis C

Angiology - Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia after cardiac surgery results in high mortality

Angiology - Varicocele treatment depends on knowledge of anatomic variants

Angiology - Venous thrombosis risk increased by hemostatic protein nonsense polymorphism

Blood Transfusion - Allogeneic blood requirement after knee replacement surgery is reduced

Business & Finance - Haemonetics reports first-quarter revenues of $111 million

Business & Finance - HemoSense Q3 revenue up 86%, marking 14th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth

Business Update - Celera receives approval to CE Mark its new RealTime PCR HCV genotyping test

Business Update - Dade Behring introduces BCS XP System, coagulation analyzer for the high-volume laboratory

Business Update - Dade Behring introduces infectious disease testing instrument, the Quadriga BeFree System

Business Update - DomaniCell launches hospital-based cord blood banking business

Business Update - Medwave, maker of blood-pressure devices, contracts with Tri-anim

Business Update - Span-America Medical Systems signs agreement with Novation to offer Secure I.V. system

Cell Therapy - Functional thymus formation initiated by postnatal epithelial progenitor cell

Diabetes Control - Solvay submits fenofibrate/metformin fixed-dose combination product for E.U. approval

Diabetes Control - Study finds 1 in 5 youths with diabetes has 2 or more risk factors for early heart disease

Diagnostics - HemoCue presents new point-of-care test for total white blood cell count

Diagnostics - Non-invasive liver fibrosis biomarkers revealed in hepatitis C hemophiliacs

Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Embryonic stem cell maintenance and cryopreservation efficacy protocols established

Enzymology - Puromycin insensitive leucyl-specific aminopeptidase ordains the development of biological systems

Epilepsy - Ketogenic diet monitoring is possible using subcutaneous microdialysis

Erythropoiesis - Expression balance paces erythroid differentiation

Finance - Cord Blood America expects second quarter revenues could set record

Finance - Dade Behring reports 5% revenue growth in second quarter, earnings per share increases 139%

Finance - Diomed Holdings signs $10 million equity financing

Finance - ExonHit Therapeutics announces first-half 2006 revenues up 46%

Finance - Immucor announces record fiscal fourth quarter revenues of $50M

Finance - Medical equipment maker Span-America reports Q3 2006 sales up 18% over prior year

Gene Research - Acute lymphoblastic leukemia not linked to transcription factor PU.1 mutations

Graft-versus-Host Disease - Multiple activation molecules preferentially upregulated on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in GvHD

Graft-versus-Host Disease - Severe acute graft-versus-host disease-related costs and survival rates increasing

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV protease cleaves poly(A)-binding protein

Heart Disease - Cardiac angiogenesis may be compromised by the effects of continuous nitroglycerin therapy

Hematology - Sickle red cell adhesion and vaso-occlusion in the microcirculation are inhibited by antioxidants

Hemophilia Therapy - Adeno-associated virus delivering factor VIII provides multiyear benefit in hemophilia A

Hodgkin Lymphoma - Hodgkin lymphoma patients did not benefit more from radiotherapy than consolidation chemotherapy

Hypertension - Aldosterone/renin ratio as a hypertension screening test is reviewed

Infectious Diseases - Mortality can be reduced in systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis

Information Technology - Information Data Management releases Prelude 1.2, a blood donor management system

Information Technology - Roche launches Web site for organ transplantation community

Ischemia - NO-synthase induction affects cardioprotection of modified endotoxine diphosphoryl lipid A

Kidney Transplant Medicine - Large transplant study shows CellCept based drug combination is best immunosuppressant

Leukemia - Adult T cell leukemia apoptosis induced by survivin overexpression and sodium arsenite

Leukemia - Children with leukemia in a second remission treated by HLA-matched sibling transplantation

Leukemia - Infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and a germline MLL gene cured by chemotherapy alone

Leukemia - Leukemia patients' loss of tumor protein 53 resulted from absence of chromosome 17 p-arm

Leukemia - TAL1 oncoprotein modulates NF-kB1 expression in a subset of human T cell leukemia cells

Licensing Agreements - Nostrum obtains licensing rights from IMTECH for clinical development of therapeutic protein

Lipoproteins - Alcohol use, vascular disease, and lipid-lowering drugs are considered in review

Liver Disease - Liver failure patients are supported with a molecular adsorbent recirculating system

MALT Lymphoma - MALT lymphoma-associated translocations not linked to nuclear BCL-10 expression

Mesothelioma & Pneumonitis - Fatal pneumonitis was linked to intensity-modulated radiation therapy for mesothelioma

Multiple Myeloma - July issue of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry highlights Infinity's lead oncology drug candidate

Neurogenesis - Increased transforming growth factor-beta 1 inhibited hippocampal neurogenesis in aged mice

Osteochondroma - Benign osteosarcoma distinguished from pediatric osteochondroma by plasma proteomic signature

Pancreatic Cancer - Pancreatic cancer extended resection techniques and indications discussed

Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation - Study explores hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier in pancreatic islet cell transplantation

Parkinson Disease - Embryonic stem cell-derived neurons in Parkinson disease exhibit delayed neuronal death

Renal Cancer - Renal cancer patients treated by nephrectomy have medium-term survival

Sepsis Research - Patient unresponsiveness in sepsis may involve blocked transcription

Stem Cell Research - Adult liver cells have enormous plasticity and differentiation potential

Stem Cell Research - Bone marrow stem cells transdifferentiate into male germ cells

Stem Cell Research - Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells express nestin when expanded on particular glass

Stem Cell Research - D2-40 antibody immunoreactivity detected in neural stem cells