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 ...

As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ...

A type of immune cell circulating in the blood contributes to cognitive ageing, and blocking its effects can reverse the ...

Platelets are small types of blood cells that prevent excessive bleeding. It’s possible to develop low or high platelet counts related to a number of health conditions. Platelets are one of the main ...

By: Sofia Bochoidze For millions of people living with Type 1 diabetes, daily life is shaped by constant calculation: glucose ...

Erythritol may impair cellular functions essential to maintaining brain blood vessel health, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Findings suggest that erythritol increases ...

Blood cancers start when blood cells become cancerous and disrupt red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets, often beginning in bone marrow. The main blood cancer types include leukemia, ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

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 ...

Diabetes is a condition of high blood sugar, also known as hyperglycemia. It is derived from the Greek word meaning to “to drain off” or “pass through.” It is marked by excessive urination, which is a ...

Neurons and white blood cells differ greatly in shape, function, and location within the body. However, researchers at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil discovered that certain genes are ...