<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : blood : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>73094</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/73094/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Good News For Vampires Everywhere - Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have used embryonic stem cells to generate blood -- a feat that could eventually lead to endless supplies of type O-negative blood, a rare blood type prized by doctors for its versatility]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>292</score><crdate>8/21/2008 11:37:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-21T11:37:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28307</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28307/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Give some blood, maybe win a car]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blood donors typically get juice, a cookie and a thank you, but the local Red Cross has parked a new car outside a hospital to entice more people to help ease a blood shortage. The pearl white 2007 Lincoln MKX crossover vehicle has a sign that reads: &quot;Win this car. Give Blood.&quot;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>52</score><crdate>7/21/2007 10:34:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-21T10:34:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59118</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59118/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gay Blood No Good]]></title><description><![CDATA[The GLBT wing of Amnesty recently highlighted that in the UK, the National Blood Service still refuses donations of blood from gay men.]]></description><comments>28</comments><score>220</score><crdate>4/21/2008 9:37:16 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-21T09:37:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19907</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19907/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists create 'plastic' blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.<br/><br/>sounds good to me, no more blood banks, no more shortages, and best of all no more risk of receiving contaminated blood.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>42</score><crdate>5/11/2007 1:50:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-11T13:50:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>15004</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/15004/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blood group conversions - potential life-saving development!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have apparently found a way to convert blood of any group into &quot;O negative&quot; type blood, which can be donated to people of all blood groups.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>39</score><crdate>4/3/2007 8:30:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-03T08:30:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54669</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54669/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blood Discovery: New Hemoglobin Type Found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemoglobin. The new haemoglobin type appears optically to be transporting little oxygen. Measurements of the blood oxygen level therefore present a similar picture to patients suffering from an inherited cardiac defect. After examining two patients, the scientists now understand that the new type of haemoglobin distorts the level of oxygen measured.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>311</score><crdate>3/18/2008 12:00:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-18T00:00:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75820</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75820/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Viking blood still flowing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blood tests taken over the past year may help show part of Cumbria in northwest England was a Viking stronghold]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>114</score><crdate>9/11/2008 7:07:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-11T19:07:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35477</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35477/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man injects love interest with his blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Cambodian man was arrested after injecting a woman with his own blood in a bizarre scheme to win her affections.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>128</score><crdate>9/12/2007 10:59:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-12T22:59:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47890</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/47890/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dog Blood Transfusions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dogs can give blood too! (for other dogs, of course)]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>182</score><crdate>1/21/2008 10:48:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-21T22:48:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55787</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55787/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cured, the boy whose blood flowed the WRONG WAY round his body]]></title><description><![CDATA[A toddler has had pioneering surgery to stop his heart pumping blood the wrong way around his body.<br/><br/>Alec Hutchinson, three, was born with a rare condition which meant the blood vessels in his heart were plumbed in back to front.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>457</score><crdate>3/26/2008 6:59:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-26T06:59:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46715</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/46715/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Artist Uses Real Blood In Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Robert Sherer said he uses HIV positive and negative blood to bring attention to the AIDS epidemic.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>384</score><crdate>1/10/2008 11:17:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-10T11:17:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51029</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51029/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Tournament of blood: The sheer horror of horse-fighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The crowd roars its approval as the chestnut stallion sinks his teeth into the throat of his opponent. The terrified victim rears up on his hind legs and veers away in a desperate bid to escape, but it is no use. Blood is pouring into his eyes and he can no longer see. His right ear is torn and bloody.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>387</score><crdate>2/18/2008 4:41:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-18T04:41:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61052</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61052/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blood weirdo arrested, surprisingly fails to get girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Cambodian man has been arrested after injecting a woman with his own blood in a poorly thought-out scheme to win her affections, police said on Wednesday.<br/>Prince Charming.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>187</score><crdate>5/8/2008 6:16:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-08T06:16:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16905</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16905/1/</url><title><![CDATA[HIV blood killed haemophilia patients]]></title><description><![CDATA[The program created by NHS, a well-known health services in Britain, was meant to supply haemophiliacs with new blood product but it turned out that blood was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>2</score><crdate>4/18/2007 3:51:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-18T15:51:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48242</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48242/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Woman Switches Blood Type After Liver Transplant]]></title><description><![CDATA[After receiving a Liver Transplant, Demi-Lee Brennan (9) was healing well, but nine months later on a check up, it was found that stem cells had migrated to her bone marrow, completely re working her Blood type and immune system.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>568</score><crdate>1/24/2008 11:32:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-24T11:32:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59615</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59615/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Menstrual blood 'can repair hearts']]></title><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/59388/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Menstrual blood</a> can be used to repair heart damage, Japanese researchers said today. Scientists obtained menstrual blood from nine women and cultivated it for about a month, focusing on a kind of cell that can act like stem cells. Some 20 per cent of the cells began beating spontaneously about three days after being put together in vitro with cells from the hearts of rats.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>338</score><crdate>4/25/2008 3:43:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T03:43:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40657</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40657/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Jehovah's Witness mother dies after refusing blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 22-year-old woman died within a few hours of giving birth to twins because, as a Jehovah's Witness, she was not allowed to accept a blood transfusion.]]></description><comments>45</comments><score>514</score><crdate>11/5/2007 8:57:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-05T08:57:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37754</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37754/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Donated blood quickly loses important gas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nitric oxide appears to break down almost immediately after red blood cells leave the body, rendering much of the blood stored in blood banks impaired.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>217</score><crdate>10/8/2007 9:09:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-08T21:09:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81622</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81622/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Would you drink your own blood for $40,000?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A radio station in Edmonton AB, had a college student on the air Halloween morning where he drank a pint of his own blood fresh from the tap.]]></description><comments>22</comments><score>319</score><crdate>11/11/2008 6:35:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-11T18:35:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39349</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39349/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Woman stabs tied-up lover to drink blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman who stabbed her tied-up lover so she could drink his blood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>198</score><crdate>10/23/2007 9:22:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-23T21:22:15+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>