Cancer researchers report that blood platelets blunt the immune response to cancer. Genetic inactivation of platelets improved the ability of T cells to fight melanoma in preclinical tests. Adoptive T ...

Due to a worldwide shortage in donations of blood and blood products, the lives of millions of people are at risk every year, according to the World Health Organization. In many developed countries, ...

When a vascular injury occurs, platelets in young mice form much smaller blood clots (left) than platelets in old mice (right), where the clot almost blocks the blood vessel. Fluorescence microscopy ...

Platelets are small, disk-shaped cell fragments in the blood that are essential to stop bleeding and to initiate blood clotting after injury. Platelet transfusions in patients with severe trauma or ...

As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they don't need to and can cause major issues such as strokes and cardiovascular ...

Despite being acaryote cell fragments, platelets share a number of properties of host defense with their big nucleated relatives and represent important elements in innate immunity. For these purposes ...

Tumor cells rely on platelet-derived TGFβ and direct contact with platelets for induction of transition into an invasive phenotype and associated gene upregulation. Direct signaling between blood ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with decreased platelet and leukocyte counts among a large ...

Mesenchymal stem cells are both a success story and underperformers. Globally, there are 10 approved MSC-based therapies in nearly as many indications, although none of them have been approved by the ...

As people age they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, which can be caused when blood platelets clump together. This clumping can lead to strokes and cardiovascular disease. For decades, ...