Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the body. It has long been known that when red blood cells break down or anemia occurs due to bleeding, the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) increases, ...

An outstanding $21 million philanthropic investment will establish a pioneering research center to advance precision diagnosis for diseases that affect millions of Australians.

A research team has discovered a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism modification. It has been known how immediate erythroid precursors ...

BLOOD DONOR CENTER AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL IN BOSTON. THE ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DOCTOR MICHELLE COVINGTON, SAYS IT’S BEEN THAT WAY FOR A WHILE, BUT IT GOT DRAMATICALLY WORSE AFTER THE ...

A new study helps explain why having ApoE4—the gene variant most closely linked to Alzheimer's disease—increases the risk of ...

A research team consisting of Professor Dong Sung Kim, Professor Anna Lee, and Dr. Jaeseung Youn from the Department of ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

GC Therapeutics claims it can create off-the-shelf therapies from induced pluripotent stem cells faster and simpler than current methods.

When studying the spread of cancer or the behavior of a virus like the one that causes COVID-19, the irony is that working ...

According to Mount Sinai, a hospital system in New York, some older patients can benefit from getting a 25-hydroxy test to ...

Different cell types have varying survival times. For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after ...