Healthy red blood cells are puffy with a dimpled middle. “It’s just a really cool shape,” says Velia Fowler, a cell biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. For decades, researchers ...

These cells will be taken from their blood by a machine (blood is then given back) and infused via a drip into the patient, where they settle into bone marrow and produce red and white blood cells.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know ...

It contains carbohydrates, which provide energy to the body but can raise blood sugar. People typically categorize rice into two types: white or brown. People have grown rice for at least 5,000 years.

Q My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that ...

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Neutropenia, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a disease that occurs when "the body has too few neutrophils, a type of white blood cells." This is important because "all white blood cells help the ...

This may result in a lack of red blood cells (anemia), white blood cells (leukopenia), and platelets (thrombocytopenia). Myelosuppression may occur when the stem cells in the bone marrow are damaged, ...

white fat cells transfer their mitochondria to macrophages — white blood cells that hoover up cellular debris. The number of shuttled organelles was reduced in obese mice. The obese mice also ...