How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team at the University of Basel ...
The human body is an extraordinary feat of biological engineering. Every heartbeat, every breath, ...
A single 30-minute sauna session may briefly put the immune system on higher alert. Finnish researchers found that sauna heat ...
Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...
Scientists have long been puzzled by how maturing red blood cells manage to produce all the hemoglobin they need to carry oxygen to tissues, even after shedding the vital structures they need to ...
It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key ...
Blood cancers that eventually worsen may carry detectable genetic warning signs years before patients develop serious ...
Blood cancers develop when changes in DNA cause blood-forming cells to grow abnormally. Instead of producing healthy blood cells that support the immune system and carry oxygen through ...
Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class ...