Production of universal red blood cells
April 11, 2007 — jmgs
A team of researchers has found a feaseble way of producing universal red blood cells. This is a very important step towards the goal of improving the blood supply while enhancing the safety of clinical transfusions.
In the new study, the researchers found two bacterial glycosidase gene families with enzymes that efficiently remove A and B antigens from red blood cells (RBCs).
The reference to the the work is the following:
“Bacterial glycosidases for the production of universal red blood cells.” Qiyong P Liu, Gerlind Sulzenbacher, Huaiping Yuan, Eric P Bennett, Greg Pietz, Kristen Saunders, Jean Spence, Edward Nudelman, Steven B Levery, Thayer White, John M Neveu, William S Lane, Yves Bourne, Martin L Olsson, Bernard Henrissat & Henrik Clausen. Nature Biotechnology Published online: 1 April 2007 doi:10.1038/nbt1298
abstract in: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v25/n4/abs/nbt1298.html
see also related news in:
http://www.scientistsolutions.com/index.php?a=topic&t=4067
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=66786
note: picture original location: http://science.uwe.ac.uk/research/uploads/CRIB_blood_cells.jpg
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filipefernandes
May 5, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Hey.
The link to the paper is broken. The correct page is here.
Pierre from blogSci.com
May 7, 2007 at 11:22 am
To Ekstreme:
Thanks for the tip. I have already corrected the link.
May 16, 2007 at 7:04 am
You’re welcome.
Love your site btw
Pierre
October 29, 2007 at 1:24 am
Hi i was just doing an assignment for biology when I started researching about red blood cells and found out why they don’t have nucleus’s (to carry more haemoglobin so more oxygen can be transported ) . I was wondering what would happen if red blood cells did have a nucleus? Would they divide and produce more blood cells? and if so couldn’t this be used in someway to relieve the shortage of blood? 0_o
March 20, 2008 at 12:14 am
hi there, i find that your picture of the red blood cells look very nice, and i am thinking of putting it in my website about the human body. Can I request permission to use your picture in my web? Much appreciated =D Thanks!
May 15, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I would like permission to use the photo of the RBC in an internal training module on blood and blood cells. How do I go about doing this?
May 15, 2008 at 1:19 pm
To Carol:
I found the picture at the site:
http://science.uwe.ac.uk/research/uploads/CRIB_blood_cells.jpg
and have used it assuming that no special permission would be necessary. I hope that I was not mistaken.
Any questions about permissions of use should be addressed to the site above (I would think).
Thanks for your visit.