Precancerous blood cells can actively reshape their surroundings, prematurely aging cells in the bone marrow to create ...

Your blood cells work tirelessly to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout your body and fighting off infections. But hidden in your daily meals are foods that can silently compromise these vital ...

Stem cells possess the unique ability to self-renew and transform into different types of cells. For example, rare ...

Patients with sickle cell disease are often hesitant to undergo transformative gene therapy—the current lengthy process ...

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 ...

After an allogeneic stem cell transplant, a recipient’s body faces a daunting task: rebuilding the person’s blood-forming and immune systems from the ground up from a relatively small number of “seed” ...

When a vascular injury occurs, platelets in young mice form much smaller blood clots (left) than platelets in old mice (right), where the clot almost blocks the blood vessel. Fluorescence microscopy ...

Scientists have discovered how aging blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth edge, creating fertile ground for the development of clonol hematopoiesis, a condition that dramatically ...

Red blood cells serve as the foundation for nanocarriers that show promise in a new study as effective and efficient vehicles for gene therapy, tumor targeting and other medical treatments.

Paula Fraser says her myelofibrosis causes severe fatigue and a poor immune response.

The COVID vaccine is perhaps the first thing many people think of when they hear about mRNA-based drugs. Small packages of ...