Is Your Blood Type A ? When it comes to our health, most of the time we do not give our blood type a second thought. Usually we think to ourselves…I better cut this out of my diet or start working out more. And always in the back of our heads we know we can ask our doctors for [...]
~ The Human Genome sequence was finished in 2001. That is 3,000,000,000 bits of information were decoded and put in order – a BIG job. ~ Now, using 38,000-year-old bone fragments, researchers have sequenced 3.7 billion base pairs of Neanderthal DNA. ~ Neanderthals are our closest relatives on the hominid family tree. We split from them about 500,000 years ago and for [...]
The RBC lifetime is about 120 days The life cycle of a Red Blood Cell. a) Kidneys respond to a lower than normal oxygen concentration in the blood by releasing the hormone erythropoietin. b) Erythropoietin travels to the red bone marrow and stimulates an increase in the production of red blood cells (RBCs). c) The red bone marrow manufactures RBCs from stem cells that live inside the marrow. [...]