This is especially critical when screening red blood cell products for transfusion, since the presence of white blood cells could provoke an immune response in the recipient. Fluorescent dyes ...

Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude serious disease, physicians in all specialties continue to behave as if it did. To assess whether a ...

which are blood samples enriched by extracting white blood cells from the peripheral blood. 1,2 Types of isolated mononuclear cells PBMCs include lymphocytes such as T cells, B cells, and NK cells, ...

This allows us to get down to the world of the cell, and that means some pretty amazing things can be seen. Here's an amoeba engulfing red blood cells and red and white blood cells moving through ...

Having a low white blood cell (WBC) count, also known as leukopenia, means that your body is not making enough of the immune ...

Below the radar Akinobu Kamei of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and his colleagues identified a class of white blood cell that only becomes active in the lungs of mice following vaccination for ...

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (Roche) has a rich history of antibody therapies to treat cancers (malignancies) that affect B cells (a type of white blood cell), including non-Hodgkin lymphoma and ...

The AuToDeCRA-2 study seeks to prove it is possible to train white blood cell commanders - dubbed the "generals" of the immune system - to order other "soldier" cells to stop attacking healthy ...

We do not know what causes MGUS. There may be a link to autoimmune diseases, genetics, or environmental factors. Like multiple myeloma, MGUS starts in a type of white blood cell called plasma cells.