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Why it is so difficult to treat leukemia?
I want to ask what is the reason that T315I type CML leukemia is currently untreatable. I have read quite a few papers in this subject. Why the current genetic oriented engineering drugs failed to ...
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How can the child and the mother have different blood types?
As far as I know the fetus is fed by the umbilical cord which basically connects his/her circulatory system with the mother's in order to supply oxygen and nutrients. But how is this possible if they ...
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Why do people have antibodies against other blood types?
The ABO blood type divides each blood type according to whether they have the "A" and "B" antigen(s) (AB has both, O has none). People also have antibodies against the antigens they don't have (AB has ...
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Can positive and negative blood type of a couple lead to miscarriage?
I want to know can $+ve$ and $-ve$ blood group of a couple could be a cause of miscarriage in pregnancy?
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What part of food gives the blood red color?
Roughly, what I know is, when we eat food it goes into our: Stomach > Small Intestine > Large Intestine > Rectum. So, it just moves through a digestive pipe.
What I don't understand is, what part of ...
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Origin, or source, of rhesus negative in human blood
This is my first post here, so please be gentle. I recently learned that I have Rh- blood (I'm A-), and was idly looking into blood types on Wikipedia. I was surprised to find that relatively few ...
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Why do mammalian red blood cells lack a nucleus?
How did the red blood cell in humans get to lose its nucleus (and other organelles)? Does the bone marrow just not put the nucleus in, or is it stripped out at some stage in the construction of the ...
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Is there any advantage to one blood type over another?
All humans can be grouped into ABO and Rh+/- blood groups (at a minimum). Is there any advantage at all to one group or the other? This article hints that there are some pathogens that display a ...
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Does the oxygen concentration equilibrate between red blood cells in the liver sinusoids?
In the sinusoids of the liver, venous blood from the hepatic portal system mixes with arterial blood from the hepatic arteries.
Do oxygen molecules move between oxygenated RBCs and non-oxygenated ...
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What are the clotting factors' effect on avascular necrosis development?
Do clotting factors tpa and pai-1 lead to degenerative osteoarthritis in the same way that lupus anticoagulant and prothrombin might? Is one of these pathways particularly detrimental during formation ...
