UAMS team manipulates blood from outside the body
by March 16, 2016 3:14 pm 163 views
A UAMS research team has demonstrated the ability to manipulate blood and lymph flow using remote, noninvasive ultrasound and lasers.
According to a UAMS press release, the discovery would allow medical advances such as transporting blood without vessels, stopping blood to stop bleeding, and moving blood almost in single file in order to analyze individual cells for diseases such as cancer and clots. Previously, manipulating single cells could only be accomplished outside the body.
The findings were published in the March 16 issue of Scientific Reports at Nature.com.
The research team’s leader, Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., said in the release that the new technology allows “up to a 1,000-fold increased sensitivity and high accuracy.”
Zharov is director of the Arkansas Nanomedicine Center at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. He also is a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Otolarynology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Also participating in the research were UAMS scientists Ekaterina I. Galanzha, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.; Dmitry A. Nedosekin, Ph.D., and Mustafa Sarimollaoglu, Ph.D., who are all associated with the Department of Otolarynology-Head and Neck Surgery, along with former colleague Mazen A. Juratli, M.D., Ph.D., and scientists from Russia.