Ian Hardie, Business Development Manager from Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service spoke to Pharmalicensing about his experiences with the company and how it helped his NHS organisation sell 5 out of 8 patents. More
Have a guess at the total length of capillaries in the human body. Ten miles, a hundred, a thousand? No - the answer is approximately 25,000, or the equivalent of a trip around the equator. Here we take a tour around the world of capillaries. More
Until the early years of the last century, pernicious anaemia was invariably fatal, then Georges Minot and William Murphy found that the condition could be reversed by eating large quantities of raw liver - a fate which is arguably almost as bad! More
The term haemophilia describes a group of disorders in which the deficiency of a blood clotting factor leads to prolonged bleeding - review of the latest information More
The article looks at the role of Dr. Alan Boyd, director of development at Eurogene, a 'virtual' company specializing in the development of gene-based treatments for diseases of the blood vessels and circulation. More
In any league table of the ten or so body systems ranked by level of public understanding, it's a fair bet that the lymphatic (or lymphoid) system would come some way down the list. More