When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread ...

Platelet spreading and clot contraction are controlled by different pathways. This discovery leads to safer treatments for ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Platelets are an important component of whole blood that helps with clotting. They are often needed by trauma patients, ...

Essentially, aspirin can boost the immune system’s ability to fight cancer metastasis by stopping platelets — tiny blood ...

Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, occurs when a blood clot forms in veins deep within the body, usually in the legs. If left ...

"The findings uncover a new way in which the immune system is suppressed, limiting T cells from fighting cancer spread. This ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

Until recently, researchers believed that platelet spreading and clot contraction were controlled by the same pathway. However a recent study from Thomas Jefferson University researchers challenges ...