Word: hemoglobins
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...Framer's intentions, if any. Women are more likely to be righthanded and less likely to be color-blind than men. Their brains are smaller, as befits their smaller body size, but more densely packed with neurons. Women have more immunoglobulins in their blood; men have more hemoglobin. Men are more tuned in to their internal aches and pains; women devote more regions of their brain to sadness. You do the scoring...
French Anderson, ever pushing the envelope, last September asked the National Institutes of Health to begin considering gene therapy in the womb for fetuses found to be afflicted with a hemoglobin deficiency that would kill them before birth and for fetuses with ADA deficiency, the "bubble boy" disorder he treated in his pioneering 1990 trial...
...When we put tumors in, they all stoppedgrowing at a millimeter or less," Folkman says."You could see it. The difference was in thethyroid gland with hemoglobin solutions, theendothelial cells along the blood vessels swelledup and prevented blood vessels from reaching thetumor. But when we moved the tumor to the animal,it grew and killed the animal. In 1961, we saw forthe first time that when you have no bloodvessels, tumors stopped growing...
Mathews-Ross is a research scientist who studies Erythropoietic Protoporphyia, a disease involving hemoglobin formation in the blood...
...year an nih-funded study tried to get some answers. Dr. Jeffrey Carson, chief of the division of general internal medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., studied records of 1,950 bloodless-surgery patients in an effort to determine the relationship between patients' hemoglobin levels and the risk of dying or developing complications after surgery...