Mice with a version of sickle-cell disease have blood-forming stem cells that show signs of chronic stress, DNA damage and premature ageing, scientists have found 1. But existing cancer drugs and anti ...

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets ...

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

Blood transfusions are crucial in human and veterinary medicine, yet human blood reserves are in constant need of donors while blood bank systems in veterinary care are nearly non-existent.

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ability to regenerate healthy blood and immune cells. By calming this cellular ...

Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class ...