Umbilical cord blood stem cells show promise for improving movement in children with cerebral palsy. These special cells may ...

Blood transfusions are crucial in human and veterinary medicine, yet human blood reserves are in constant need of donors, ...

Science may one day give us a way to replace damaged and diseased parts of the body with artificial replacements – but ...

By freezing your own healthy blood stem cells in your 20s, thawing them and undergoing a stem cell transplant in your 40s or ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by how maturing red blood cells manage to produce all the hemoglobin they need to carry oxygen to tissues, even after shedding the vital structures they need to ...

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to regenerate blood vessels.

The Forsberg lab focuses on blood cell development and its implications for clotting and heart disease, cancers, infectious disease, and more. As people age, so too do their stem cells. Scientists ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key ...

Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints form unique designs, and zebras can be identified by their distinctive ...

When Middle Tennessee hospitals need blood, most turn to nonprofit Blood Assurance. Here's an inside look at its intricate network that saves lives.