Blood transfusions are crucial in human and veterinary medicine, yet human blood reserves are in constant need of donors, ...

By freezing your own healthy blood stem cells in your 20s, thawing them and undergoing a stem cell transplant in your 40s or ...

Young blood stem cells restored key blood-forming and immune functions in aged mice without chemotherapy or radiation. Credit ...

Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class of drugs, according to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research ...

The shortage is not a summer blip. It reflects a structural decline that has been building for decades — and it plays out ...

Cryopreserver Vitrafy has entered a partnership with the oldest blood bank in the US to reduce platelet wastage with better ...

The Nebraska Community Blood Bank celebrated its first anniversary at its second location amid blood shortages.

The father of a teenager from Guinea with sickle cell disease who died days after he was arrested for cheating in an exam has ...

Alpha-gal syndrome is a strange tick-borne illness that induces an allergy to a specific type of sugar found in red meat.

Smouldering myeloma is better thought of as an early warning stage – a sign that some of the cells in her bone marrow are ...

Antarctic icefish uniquely survive without haemoglobin and myoglobin proteins. This genetic mutation led to significant ...