In a new study by the Yale Department of Immunobiology and Yale Cancer Center, researchers report combined liver and growth factor humanization enhances human red blood cell production and survival in ...

During venipuncture, pressure differences between the vein and the vacuum in the Vacutainer forces blood into the tube. Image by Tannim101 (CC BY 3.0) During venipuncture, pressure differences between ...

Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...

Most people have never heard of the soleus muscle, a small but mighty muscle present in the calf that makes up about 1% of ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Gravity reduces blood flow to the brain, and this reduced circulation may contribute to brain ageing. This is a new ...

Organ transplantation involves the transplantation of organs from donors as a means to treat disease or injury, but there is a shortage of organs available for donation compared to the demand for ...

J.H., a 15-year-old girl, had acute myeloblastic leukemia, diagnosed in April, 1963. She had 2 remissions of 5 and 4 months' duration while being treated with prednisone, methylglyoxal ...

RIKEN researchers have imitated the formation of organs in the lab by "hacking" certain signaling pathways that guide the development of connective tissues in the embryo, which support the formation ...