A groundbreaking UCSF study challenges the long-held belief that blood is solely produced in bone marrow. Researchers discovered that lungs contain active blood-forming stem cells, capable of ...

The Philly native started working with Mural Arts after his imprisonment. Now, his work is in museum collections.

Ryan Dolce is crisscrossing the country on a quest to donate platelets at every Red Cross site in America. So far, he's hit ...

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a new biological mechanism behind tissue and organ damage in low-oxygen conditions like heart attacks, strokes, and severe COVID-19. Bursting red blood cells—not ...

Damage to the vascular lining leads to interactions with red blood cells that hint at how to treat dangerous complications of heart attack, stroke and COVID-19.

In a video posted to Instagram, the 64-year-old said the Mantle Cell Lymphoma is a rare and fast-moving form of blood cancer. Szubanski will soon begin treatment with the Nordic protocol.

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The circulatory system consists of one heart, five liters of blood, and approximately 96,000 kilometers of blood vessels, responsible for transporting nutrients and waste throughout the body ...

SCIENTISTS have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as ...