Have you ever been in a classroom and wondered to yourself whether the information being presented could be wrong? During graduate school, I audited a medical school class in which the professor ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have found a way to observe clotting activity in blood as it happens — without needing invasive procedures. Using a new type of microscope and artificial ...

Jonathan N. Thon, Ph.D. A platelet (yellow) is flanked by a red blood cell (left) and a white blood cell (right) in this electron microscope view. (WikiMedia Commons) Most health stories in the news ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Platelets are cells in the blood whose job is to stop bleeding by sticking together to form clots and plug up a wound. Now, for the first time, scientists have measured and mapped the key molecular ...

A project at the University of Tokyo has developed a new imaging technique designed to observe the development of potentially dangerous blood clots. A combination of frequency-division multiplexed ...

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(11):1431-1451. Bacterial contact with the platelets is a key event for the pathogenesis of sepsis, as deduced from the correlation between sepsis outcome and decreased ...