Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells ...

Researchers have discovered and analyzed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy. The ...

Every day, hospitals throughout the U.S. transfuse blood or blood components, such as platelets, to save the lives of people who are in car crashes, and victims of fires and other emergencies.

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...

Joint injury induces rapid and sustained diversification of resident and infiltrating synovial macrophage phenotypes, underpinning osteoarthritis-associated synovitis.

red blood cell lysis and/or analysis by flow cytometry. Viability of cells was assessed by trypan blue (Sigma) exclusion. Total spleen cells were either frozen in freezing solution [FBS supplemented ...

Transfusions of red blood cells (RBCs) can be life-saving treatments for patients suffering from anemia, where the body lacks enough healthy RBCs to effectively deliver oxygen around the body. But the ...

Mass cytometry by time-of-flight (CyTOF) is a newly developed technology that can profile the composition and number of immune cells.25–27 To test the value of peripheral blood immune cells in tumour ...

Red blood cells (RBC) can be present in urine even when ... The clean catch method involves starting the flow of urine and placing the collection cup into the flow midstream.

Previous studies have shown they may interact with our hormones, or enter our cells ... narrow blood vessels, called capillaries, which could cause prolonged obstructions to blood flow in the ...