Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

It has only recently become known that two parallel systems of blood formation exist in the body, originating from different precursor cells. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) ...

Stress can raise your blood pressure both in the short term and long term. Managing stress is a key way to lower your blood ...

The 19th-century science fiction novel Frankenstein explores the idea of combining artificial materials with human body components, purely as a matter of imagination. Two centuries later, such ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Researchers have developed an approach to "deleting" a blood system affected by leukemia while simultaneously building up a new, healthy system with donor blood stem cells. Writing in the journal ...

Do you know your blood type? Under certain circumstances, having one particular blood type could potentially increase your ...

For many people, the idea of donating blood is inspiring right up until the moment they are standing at the door of the ...

High blood pressure continues to climb across the United States, and it doesn’t always announce itself with clear warning ...