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

Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

Jonathan N. Thon, Ph.D. A platelet (yellow) is flanked by a red blood cell (left) and a white blood cell (right) in this electron microscope view. (WikiMedia Commons) Most health stories in the news ...

A project at the University of Tokyo has developed a new imaging technique designed to observe the development of potentially dangerous blood clots. A combination of frequency-division multiplexed ...

Platelets have been shown to cover a broad range of functions. Besides their role in hemostasis, they have immunological functions and thus participate in the interaction between pathogens and host ...

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 ...

Due to a worldwide shortage in donations of blood and blood products, the lives of millions of people are at risk every year, according to the World Health Organization. In many developed countries, ...

Platelets promote immune tolerance to certain cancers by suppressing T cells and adoptive T cell therapy may be enhanced by adding antiplatelet drugs, report researchers at the Medical University of ...