A new, fast and easy test could revolutionize blood transfusions, giving blood centers and hospitals a reliable way to ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

Type 2 diabetes becomes more dangerous to the heart the longer a person has it. Researchers found that after several years, ...

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell ...

It is well known that type 2 diabetes raises the risk of heart attack and stroke and that risk tends to increase over time. A new study from Karolinska Institutet suggests one possible reason may sit ...

‘I donated umbilical cord blood, and another mum’s donation saved my daughter’ - Cord blood is rich in stem cells, and can be ...

Of all the types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and lacks specific therapies.

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...