Using a special microscopy technique, scientists have learned that the lungs have a role in the production of blood. With video of a live mouse lung, they revealed that the lungs produce more than ...

Platelets, whose primary function is to prevent bleeding, are vital for treating various forms of trauma and blood diseases. However, they can only be obtained through blood donations at present.

Challenging a long-held model about how blood is formed, a study led by UC San Francisco researchers has found that the lungs play a crucial role in the process, producing half of blood platelets and ...

Worldwide first artificial Human Platelet Lysate (HPL) solution – a key ingredient for the research & production of cell-based pharmaceuticals – developed based on artificial platelet technology from ...

When a vascular injury occurs, platelets in young mice form much smaller blood clots (left) than platelets in old mice (right), where the clot almost blocks the blood vessel. Fluorescence microscopy ...

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(11):1431-1451. Platelet GPIIIa, and even the same epitope within this surface protein, are also targets of autoantibodies, which are generated in HIV-infected patients.

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

Cancer researchers report that blood platelets blunt the immune response to cancer. Genetic inactivation of platelets improved the ability of T cells to fight melanoma in preclinical tests. Adoptive T ...

Platelets are small, disk-shaped cell fragments in the blood that are essential to stop bleeding and to initiate blood clotting after injury. Platelet transfusions in patients with severe trauma or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with decreased platelet and leukocyte counts among a large ...

As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they don’t need to and can cause major issues such as strokes and cardiovascular ...