Blood in the human body is a complex fluid. It is responsible for transport of dissolved gases, nutrients and waste products. It regulates the pH of not only itself, but of all the intercellular fluid in the body. In addition, blood carries hormones...

Whenever a blood vessel is broken due to injury, bleeding occurs. Bleeding soon stops, however, because the break is quickly sealed by a clot. The process by which a clot forms involves many steps and more than a dozen different proteins, or clotting...

Branch of biology that deals with blood and blood-forming...

Hematology (American English) or haematology (British English) is the branch of biology (physiology), pathology, clinical laboratory, internal medicine, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs, and blood...

Molecular Hematology D. Provan, J. Gribben, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005: 324pp. ISBN 1 40511255 7. £99.50. Haematology has a distinguished place in the history of molecular medicine. In 1949, in a seminal paper describing molecular differences between normal haemoglobin and sickle cell haemoglobin,...

Practical obstetric hematology Edited by Peter Clark and Ian Greer Published by Taylor & Francis, 2005 ISBN: 1842142623 Practical obstetric hematology is a short handbook on obstetrical hematology. In the preface, the editors have rightly emphasized the importance of the growing clinical interaction...

Pharmion Corp.Boulder, Colo.pharmion.comWhen an unprofitable biotech's shares rise sharply, it usually means a developmental drug has done well in clinical trials.Pharmion's PHRM shares recently soared 75% over two days for a different reason. Its key drug, already on the market, proved to be more effective...

Cancer patients could be helped in the future as a result of research at the University of Kentucky that identified and mapped a gene in bone marrow, according to The Courier-Journal.The research has been done only in mice, the newspaper reported Monday, quoting an online...