Blood

Blood is a bodily fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. When it reaches the lungs, gas exchange occurs when carbon dioxide is diffused out of the blood into the pulmonary alveoli and oxygen is diffused into the blood. This oxygenated blood is pumped to the left hand side of the heart in the pulmonary vein and enters the left atrium. From here it passes through the mitral valve, through the ventricle and taken all around the body by the aorta. Blood contains antibodies, nutrients, oxygen and much more to help the body work.

In vertebrates, it is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains dissipated proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide (plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation), and blood cells themselves. Albumin is the main protein in plasma, and it functions to regulate the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. The blood cells are mainly red blood cells (also called RBCs or erythrocytes), white blood cells (also called WBCs or leukocytes) and platelets. The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood are red blood cells. These contain hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein, which facilitates oxygen transport by reversibly binding to this respiratory gas and greatly increasing its solubility in blood. In contrast, carbon dioxide is almost entirely transported extracellularly dissolved in plasma as bicarbonate ion.

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Antibody-based therapy discovered at The Lundquist Institute is several steps closer to treating a lethal fungal infection

Canoe 24 Mar 2025
“Our humanized monoclonal antibody allows antifungal drug therapy to reach to infected tissues because it prevents fungal cells from damaging human cells and blood vessels,” Ibrahim said.
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Researchers Search For More Precise Ways To Measure Pain

Slashdot 24 Mar 2025
Four research teams funded by the Department of Health and Human Services are developing technologies to quantify pain like other vital signs. Their approaches include a blood test for endometriosis ...
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‘Unique and important’: Tongue-biting louse is wonderfully gruesome

AOL 24 Mar 2025
Rather than simply killing the fish, they suck blood from the tissue of the tongue so it withers away. Unlike human tongues, which are flexible and muscular, fish tongues are predominantly bone surrounded by soft tissue.
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St. Michael last March 14: “Death will come to a world leader”

Sun Star 24 Mar 2025
Humanity does not know where to turn when it finds itself without God ...Famine is coming to humanity; accustom yourselves to living in greater austerity ... “THE BLOOD MOON ANNOUNCED THE GREAT PAINS THAT WILL BEFALL HUMANITY.
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‘Flesh-eating’ fungus: Fatal infection on the rise but this new antibody treatment could change everything, ...

Hindustan Times 23 Mar 2025
"Our humanized monoclonal antibody allows antifungal drug therapy to reach to infected tissues because it prevents fungal cells from damaging human cells and blood vessels," Ibrahim said.
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Everglades therapy: Veterans combat PTSD by wrangling invasive Burmese pythons

Sun Sentinel 23 Mar 2025
He has also faced blood poisoning from the bacteria in a snake bite, and even worse, had a snake defecate into his mouth as a defense mechanism, a culinary sensation he describes as surprisingly chalky.
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Christians in city observe Lent with prayer, sacrifice & service

The Times of India 22 Mar 2025
CAB also organises blood donation camps during this period ... Donating blood reflects Christ's love and sacrifice for humanity,' Jasnani added.Rev Fr Thomas D'Souza, Archbishop of Calcutta, said.
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Antibody-based therapy shows potential against lethal mucormycosis

Madhyamam 22 Mar 2025
This suggests that VX-01 could be a promising treatment to help fight mucormycosis in people with weakened immune systems.“Our humanised monoclonal antibody allows antifungal drug therapy to reach ...
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Is Miami Beach Iguana Removal Program Killing Reptiles Humanely?

Miami New Times 22 Mar 2025
To help quell the large iguana population, the city has an "iguana remediation ...
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Greeley City Council proclaims March as American Red Cross Month

The Tribune Greeley 22 Mar 2025
... dedicated to alleviating human suffering, particularly during emergencies and conflicts, by providing disaster relief, supporting blood donations and promoting preparedness and safety skills.
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Federal funding cuts threaten Colorado’s plan to reduce HIV infections

Daily Camera 22 Mar 2025
Colorado public health officials started the year with a plan to bring down new HIV infections across the state ... Department of Health and Human Services ... Human immunodeficiency virus spreads via semen, vaginal secretions, blood or breastmilk ... .
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8 yrs after pregnant woman’s death in Rims, NHRC asks state govt to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation

The Times of India 21 Mar 2025
Close to eight years after the death of a 22-year-old pregnant woman at the state-run Rims hospital here following a delay in providing blood, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has found ...
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Nursery of the blood: How stem cells calm the body's immune response

Science Daily 21 Mar 2025
An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways of blood cells in humans.
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Flu deaths rise as anti-vaccine disinformation takes root

The Oneida Daily Dispatch 21 Mar 2025
Department of Health and Human Services has canceled or postponed meetings to prepare for next fall’s flu vaccine, when experts talk about what influenza strains they expect they’ll be battling ... Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.
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