Blood Weekly

Blood Banking - Flu pandemic may impact blood supply via reduced blood donations and blood center staffing

Tissue Engineering - Living autologous heart valves engineered from prenatally harvested progenitors

Tissue Engineering - Macroporous and nanofibrous poly(L-lactic acid) scaffold mimics natural bone matrix

Tissue Engineering - Proepicardium is a suitable cellular source for vascular tissue engineering

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - Acute lymphoblastic leukemia remission is likely when lymphangiogenesis factor is absent

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - Hana initiates Marqibo phase II trial in relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Acute myeloid leukemia is detected by angiogenesis biomarkers

Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Acute myeloid leukemia progression prognosticated by serum levels of sCD137

Adrenal Myelolipoma - Adrenal myelolipoma case study presented

Awards - American Red Cross honors software maker Plateau Systems with Circle of Humanitarian award

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Regional contractile recovery occurs after direct intramyocardial bone marrow transplant

Business & Finance - Daxor reports total operating revenues increase by 24.4% in second quarter

Business & Finance - Medwave reports 81% growth in Q3 2006 net sales to $366,000 compared to $202,000 a year ago

Business Update - America's Blood Centers announces newest member

Business Update - BD Diagnostics announces availability of CD4 stabilization blood collection technology

Business Update - Medafor introduces hemostatic vascular closure device to international cardiology markets

Business Update - Mississippi Blood Services tests radio frequency ID equipment for blood inventory management

Business Update - Swedish Medical Center, Seattle enters heart-surgery affiliation with Cleveland Clinic

Business Update - ViroPharma and Wyeth achieve proof of concept milestone for hepatitis C treatment HCV-796

Cancer Epidemiology - Epidemic increase in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Scandinavian countries has subsided

Cancer Therapy -  Ganoderma lucidum extract induced apoptosis in the cells of hematologic malignancies

Cancer Therapy - Antitumor activity of JS-K shown potent in both in vivo activities and rat liver model

Cardiology - Bileaflet heart valve prosthesis demonstrates good hemodynamic properties

Cardiovascular Research - Blood clots can be treated by injections at home

Cellular Therapy - Practical approach for cell-based liver disease therapy remains difficult

Critical Care Medicine - Cell-mediated immune response after burn improved by lack of aromatase

Dermatology - BMP-4 induces Smad-dependent apoptosis of embryonic stem cell-derived neural precursors

Developmental Biology - Sarcoma cell growth isoform production induces vasculogenesis

Diabetes Therapy -  Solanum lycocarpum restored hemoglobin and hematocrit to normal values in diabetes model

Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Embryonal stem cell-specific gene 1 is a putative RNA-binding protein with broad RNA targets

Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Melanocytes can be induced from embryonic stem cells

Environmental Health - Radiation doses received by cleanup workers of Chornobyl accident estimated

Finance - Cord Blood America announces record revenues of more than $1 million in second quarter

Finance - Northfield Laboratories reports fiscal 2006 fourth quarter loss of $8.3 million

Fungal Infection & Cancer - Aggressive anticancer therapy and neutropenia linked with fungal infections

Fungal Prophylaxis - Fungal infection incidence similar in transplant patients given itraconazole or fluconazole

Gastric Cancer - Risk of developing gastric cancer associated with Helicobacter pylori determined

Gastroenterology - Propofol sedation is safe during upper endoscopy for gastrointestinal bleeding

Graft-versus-Host Disease - Progenitor cells trapped in bone marrow filters can reduce graft-versus-host disease

HIV/AIDS Oral Hairy Leukoplakia - Risk factors for oral hairy leukoplakia in HIV/AIDS patients determined

Heart Disease - Cardioprotective effects of rosiglitazone related to ANG II receptor and p42/44 MAPK

Heart Transplantation - Total artificial heart current status is reviewed

Hemangioma & Anemia - Splenic cord capillary hemangioma patient resolved of anemia with splenectomy

Hematology - Complement activation during in vitro cardiopulmonary bypass is inhibited by APT070

Hematology - Hyporesponsiveness of T cell subsets after cardiac surgery is result of altered TH1 cell function

Hematopoiesis - Hematopoiesis in liver, spleen, and bone marrow overlap perinatally

Hepatitis B Virus - Cytotoxic T cell accumulation in hepatitis C infection is associated with liver damage

Hepatitis C Virus - Chronic hepatitis C noninvasive ratio indexes evaluates fibrosis staging

Hepatitis C Virus - Combination treatment for recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation reported

Hepatitis C Virus - Defective hepatitis C virus clones identified in liver transplant recipients

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus anti-C1q antibody associations clarified in infection

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus compartmentalization is a predictor of treatment efficacy

Hepatitis C Virus - Hypocholesterolemia reversal in chronic hepatitis C is related to viral genotype

Hepatitis C Virus - Recurrent hepatitis C infections monitored for plasma ribavirin during treatment

Hepatitis C Virus - Sensitivity to hepatitis C virus therapy may change after liver transplantation

Human Face Allograft - Human face allograft successful 4 months post-transplantation

Immunotherapy - Omrix Biopharmaceuticals announces U.S. Phase III clinical trial for intravenous immunoglobulin

Infectious Diseases - Bacterial pathogens causing bloodstream infections identified by DNA microarray

Ischemia - After ischemia, early use of anticoagulants may hamper angiogenic response

Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus - Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus targets multiple leukocyte lineages

Kidney Disease - Chronic kidney disease progresses despite stem cell prevention of capillary loss

Kidney Transplant - Renal preservation is best with 95 mmHg mean arterial pressures in hemoperfused experimental system

Leukemia - Acute lymphoblastic leukemia poor prognosis predicted by Aven overexpression

Leukemia - Acute myelogenous leukemia cytogenetic abnormalities differed between geographic regions in Spain

Leukemia - Childhood acute myeloid leukemia survival influenced by ethnicity

Leukemia - Chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment could be treated with weekly clofarabine

Leukemia - Leukemia patients identified with seemingly normal circulating dendritic cell compartment

Leukemia - Leukemia response to topoisomerase II poisons reduced when treated with digitoxin concurrently

Lung Cancer - Non-small cell lung cancer progression parallels the presence of circulating progenitor cells

Lymphoproliferative Disorder - Fulminant EBV-associated T cell lymphoproliferative disorder occurred after SC transplantation

Medical Devices - Company gets patent on noninvasive means to stimulate beneficial mediators from blood vessels

Myeloma - Myeloma cells were sensitized by trichostatin A

Myocardial Infarction - Heart attack-related injuries are treated by bone marrow cell cytokines in animal models

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment - Intravenous busulfan improves outcomes in non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Oncology - Tumor angiogenesis is turned on by the tetraspanin D6.1A/CO-029

Pediatric Cardiology - Cold blood cardioplegia plus hot shot preserves myocardial amino acids in cyanotic patients

Pediatric Oncology - Primary childhood cancer survivors might develop Ewing sarcoma-family tumors

Personnel - Molecular diagnostics company XDx appoints James P. Yee, MD, PhD, as chief medical officer

Personnel - Tasco Holdings appoints Geoffrey O'Neill, PhD, as new chief scientific advisor

Prostate Cancer - Prostate cancer finds new diagnostic option in urinary white blood cell count

Stem Cell Research - Airway epithelia differentiation dependent on erbB2

Stem Cell Research - Chronic myeloid leukemia-derived and normal mesenchymal stem cells similar

Stem Cell Research - Dental pulp stem cells cryopreserved for 2 years are capable of differentiation

Stem Cell Research - Differentially expressed genes identified in limbal and corneal epithelial basal cells

Stem Cell Research - Dopamine inhibits DNA synthesis in embryonic stem cells in dose- and time-dependent manner

Stem Cell Research - Fetal cortical cells have limited lifespan in culture

Stem Cell Research - Genome-wide genetic approaches reveal intrinsic properties of stem cells

Stem Cell Research - Hematopoietic progenitor cells protected by telomerase reverse transcriptase

Stem Cell Research - Mesenchymal stem cells isolated by low-density primary culture system

Stem Cell Research - Planarian X-ray-sensitive stem cells isolated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting

Stem Cell Research - Purkinje fiber aggregates derive from a single cell and not multicell homing

Stem Cell Research - Rosiglitazone modifies adipogenic potential of muscle satellite cells

Stem Cell Research - Stem cells show a plastic plasticity

Stem Cell Research - Subpopulation of label-retaining satellite cells during growth and after injury identified

Stem Cell Research - Suppression of hematopoietic cell growth occurs synergistically