NPR Health Blog
Blood: It's A Jungle In There
A study in Science, conducted by John Weisel, PhD, professor of
Cell and Developmental Biology, suggests the key to a blood clots’ flexibility
is the way each molecule unfolds when tugged, exposing hidden inner parts of the
fibrin string that then actively expel water. "That's how the whole clot volume
decreases about ten-fold with three-fold stretching," says Weisel in a
NPR Health Blog. It's this molecular unfolding that allows clots to
stretch so far... Read More
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