Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Bone marrow is the spongy tissue located within the hollow center of bones, serving as the primary site for the continuous ...

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have an amazing capacity to maintain and repopulate all the blood cells – from platelets to red blood cells to immune cells – for a person’s entire lifetime. This ...

During ageing, bone marrow in the skull becomes an increasingly important site of blood-cell production. This is in stark contrast to most bones where the ability of marrow to make blood and immune ...

What if doctors could more accurately diagnose and monitor blood cancer with a simple blood draw? This vision is becoming a ...