Blood is essential to life. We’re all born with it and will die with it. And unlike a hip or a heart or a lung, it can be replenished but never replaced. The volume of blood in our bodies ...

Blood loss is the leading cause of death in trauma patients between the ages of 1 and 46 years, largely because they cannot ...

In the February 27 issue, Professor Born rightly drew attention to the need to minimise waste in laboratories and cited as a specific example the destruction of scintillation vials after being ...

CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors ...

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 ...

According to new findings from University of Michigan scientists, eating too much fat could seriously hobble your immune ...

The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing or limiting infection. Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens.

Nagoya University, Columbia University and Harvard University have made an important discovery about the relationship between hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and immune response evasion. Their ...

Dipanjan Pan, professor at Penn State, is working to change that by leading the development of freeze-dried synthetic blood—a breakthrough that could transform emergency medicine.