Learn more about platelets, small types of blood cells that prevent excessive bleeding and serve other important purposes.

A study in the journal Nature explains how age reshapes the blood system. In both humans and mice, a few stem cells, or ...

They are produced by white blood cells and can bind to specific bacteria and viruses to label them for destruction by other types of white blood cells Your body produces around one million ...

The sCD13 protein has been previously identified by a rheumatology research team at the University of Michigan as a powerful ...

This, in turn, triggers NETosis and the formation of these white blood cell traps, and the harmful inflammation and clot formation that follows," she said. "Targeting the Piezo1 ion channel could ...