Blood cells carry a deep evolutionary history. A new analysis suggests their earliest ancestors were macrophage-like cells inherited from single-celled life. By tracing those lineages back 700 million ...

Aging progressively affects how our bodies function. Among other effects, it reduces the ability of the hematopoietic system—the organs and tissues responsible for producing blood cells—to maintain ...

From brain organoids to rejuvenated blood stem cells, researchers are exploring how stem-cell biology could help combat ...

Epigenetic clocks have become one of the most talked-about tools in modern aging science, promising to reveal whether a ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a previously unknown cell type in the zebrafish heart that appears to ...

Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according to a new study from researchers at the ...

Blood cancers or leukemias are not a single disease. In fact, the same type of cancer may behave differently in two ...

Scientists have been working on the artificial production of blood for several decades. Now, researchers from the University of Konstanz and Queen Mary University of London have taken an important ...

Scarlet Therapeutics Ltd (‘Scarlet’), a biotech company developing red blood cell-based therapeutics, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...