The Caroline County Department Emergency Services plans to start a whole blood program that the department believes will save ...

With a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team from Pen State College of Medicine will ...

Coffee Memorial Blood Center of Amarillo, the organization that provides blood and blood products to the hospitals and ...

Explore the fascinating world of the human body in this animated educational video. Discover the roles of essential organs ...

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 ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...

Your morning coffee might do more than wake you up – it could weaken donated blood. A large new study shows caffeine lowers red blood cell quality, making transfusions less effective, especially in ...

Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according to a new study from researchers at the ...

To work correctly, your body needs healthy blood cells. It makes new ones every day. All blood cells start in your bone marrow as stem cells. Each type of blood cell does its job and then dies off.

For patients with a rare type of blood cancer, treatment might finally be coming out of the Dark Ages. People with the chronic condition polycythemia vera make too many red blood cells, thickening ...

A team led by the University of Sydney has identified red blood cell rupture at dying endothelial sites as a primary driver of microvascular obstruction in COVID-19, bypassing the expected role of ...