This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Every day, hospitals throughout the U.S. transfuse blood or blood components, such as platelets, to save the lives of people who are in car crashes, and victims of fires and other emergencies.

Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival ...

Anemia is the medical term for a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells circulating in the bloodstream. Red blood cells ...

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with the Children's ...

They're in every beauty editor's toolkit and are loved by dermatologists. But how effective are LED face masks? Red's Beauty ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

EMS machines are a popular option for managing PAD – but a vascular surgeon explains why they should be a supplement to ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer ...