Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood ...

This important study shows that nutrient stress emanating from the microenvironment induces metabolic vulnerabilities in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Using a combination of cell-based and ...

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A: The term “cord blood” refers to the fetal blood that remains in the placenta and the umbilical cord after a baby has been delivered. It is rich in stem cells, which are undifferentiated ...

We would like to know how that works and if there are already uses for cord blood. Can it help with Type 1 diabetes? The stem cells contained in umbilical cord blood are known as hematopoietic ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know ...

A simpler method of analyzing blood samples for Alzheimer's disease has been tested in a large multi-center study. Researchers at Lund University and Washington University have identified a blood ...

In 2021, Anne-Marie Rodriguez, a cell biologist at Sorbonne University in Paris, and her colleagues found that platelets isolated from human blood shuttled their mitochondria to stem cells when ...

Vitamin B-12 works with folate to help your body make new cells, including blood cells and nerve cells. While you don't usually require more B12 as you age, your body cannot absorb it as well when ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States ...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a blood test used to measure the average amount of hemoglobin in your red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to tissues ...

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...