Nano blood cells

United Press International (Dec. 4) – Researchers at Illinois and Washington Universityin St. Louis have created an artificial red blood cell that effectively picks up oxygen in the lungs and delivers it to tissues throughout the body. Earlier versions could capture oxygen in the lungs, but then would not effectively release the oxygen after traveling out to tissues and organs. A synthetic polymer coating developed by the study's lead researcher, Dipanjan Pan, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Illinois  appears to solve both these problems. Also: STAT (Dec. 2), Medscape (Dec. 3), The Street (Dec. 3), Bismark Tribune (ND, Dec. 4), CBS News (Dec. 5), MedicalResearch.com (Dec. 5), Daily Mail (UK, Dec. 6), CBS St. Louis (Dec. 6), Medical Daily (Dec. 6), MINA (Dec. 6), AviationPros.com (Dec. 6), ASEE FirstBell (Dec. 6), The Guardian (Dec. 6), Monthly Prescribing Reference (Dec. 8).