Scientists from the French Blood Establishment (EFS) has successfully identified the ultra-rare 48 th blood type group, known ...

If you have AB-positive blood — known as the universal recipient blood type — you can receive red blood cells from people with all types of blood. The chart below gives an overview of blood ...

Red blood cells, which are part of the circulatory system, deliver oxygen to cells throughout the body and carry away carbon dioxide. Platelets are cell fragments that form clots and stop bleeding.

Scientists have been working on the artificial production of blood for several decades. Now, researchers from the University ...

Stem cells can become any type of cell in the body but, until now, no lab-grown cells have successfully been transplanted into mice A stem cell or bone marrow transplant replaces damaged blood ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells.We would like to know ...

Uncontrolled synthesis of abnormal white blood cells, which may replace and impair normal blood cells, is an indicator of leukaemia. Leukaemia in childhood can be of two primary types: ...

Learn more about lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. We look at their function, normal levels, and what happens if levels are too high or too low.

T-cell lymphoma originates in a mature type of white blood cell known as T-cells. It often begins in the lymph nodes, but may also start in the skin, blood, or other organs. Resources We Trust ...

Although the study was initiated in part to investigate whether long-term donation had any negative effects on the donors’ blood cells, they discovered an unexpected positive effect. Although both ...

In 2017, the UCSF team found cells in the mouse lung making 50% of the mouse’s platelets. They also discovered lung stem cells in mice that made all the constituents of blood, including red blood ...

This Rh variant — a type of RhD, another red blood cell antigen — is not compatible with the variants the team found in the Denisovans or the early Homo sapiens in their study.