A major bottleneck in curing HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is that the virus can hide in an inactive form within resting white blood cells, which play a crucial role in coordinating the immune ...

This study is the first to identify and define the relationship between loss of Y in white blood cells, immune cells and tumors, providing insights as to why men with loss of Y have increased ...

Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea ...

The theme remains the same this year. Should White Abarrio or Fierceness win Saturday's race at Saratoga Race Course, either would become the front-runner for the most coveted year-end prize ...

By Gina Kolata A group of 97 patients had longstanding multiple myeloma, a common blood cancer that doctors consider incurable, and faced a certain, and extremely painful, death within about a year.

Known as hemoglobin vesicles, these particles mimic natural red blood cells and can carry oxygen efficiently. They are also free of any blood type markers, making them universally compatible and ...

Red blood cells (erythrocytes). These carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. White blood cells (leukocytes). These help fight infections and aid in the immune process. Platelets ...

In this article, a technique for microscopic images segmentation is proposed in order to extract the white blood cells (WBC) and its components (nucleus, cytoplasm) from the red blood cells and plasma ...