Stem cells are often described as the body's master cells. Healthy stem cells can restore the blood system after cancer ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know ...

Myelosuppression, or bone marrow suppression, is defined as a decrease in the ability of the bone marrow to produce blood cells. This may result in a lack of red blood cells (anemia), white blood ...

People with the condition produce either no or too little haemoglobin, which is used by red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body. Symptoms include anaemia, fatigue, shortness of breath, ...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a blood test used to measure the average amount of hemoglobin in your red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to tissues ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has transformed the treatment of refractory or relapsed leukemia and hematologic malignancies, particularly over the past decade. Despite its ...

often called a "Blood Moon." But thanks to cloudy skies and the need for sleep, not everyone was able to see peak illumination. Here are some images captured by photographers across the globe.

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“To be a stem cell donor gives a patient with a blood disease like leukemia or other kinds of blood cancers a chance at curing their disease, a chance at life,” says Warren B ...

But that old story now has a new twist. Scientists have detected the organelles outside of cells, apparently functioning perfectly well while drifting around the blood of healthy people, according to ...

The peripheral immune system is thought to affect the pathology of the central nervous system in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, current knowledge is inadequate for understanding the ...