Immune cells protect and heal the human body. In medicine, they are specifically activated through biochemical reactions to treat certain diseases. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, ETH ...

Predicting an individual's risk of ischemic stroke is difficult because thrombosis embolization-the process of a blood clot ...

Eosinophils are white blood cells that play a key role in how the immune system responds to infections, allergies, and some serious illnesses. High levels usually mean the body is reacting to ...

Daniel Cressy’s illness was a barrier to getting his pilot’s license, until a novel treatment was approved in the United ...

About 9% of men of reproductive age in the United States experience fertility problems. One of the many causes of male ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that serotonin, the chemical best known for regulating mood, may also speed the ...

ARPA-H gene editing program THRIVE awards $160 million to seven research teams tasked with building scalable base-editing ...

Horseshoe crabs show up in the fossil record over 445 million years ago. Their blood is valuable in testing vaccines.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood cells are made—works differently in humans than previously thought, ...

Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward ...

Daniel Cressy, 23, says path leading to completion of curative gene therapy is his ‘greatest blessing’ A young south-eastern Louisiana man recently became the first person in his region to be ...

Running extreme distances may strain more than just muscles and joints. New research suggests ultramarathons can alter red blood cells in ways that make them less flexible and more prone to breakdown, ...