Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets ...

Know your enemy, know yourself. It’s a centuries-old strategy. But even in the present-day war against cancer, achieving it remains elusive. In many cases, cancer cells blend in with healthy ones.

Leukemia, a cancer that develops in the blood, often in bone marrow, produces abnormal cells throughout the bloodstream. Experts estimate over 62,000 new cases of leukemia and over 23,000 deaths from ...

Hematopoietic stem cells give rise to all blood cells in the body. Most of the time they are not dividing. Rather, they serve as a reserve for the times when the body needs rapid blood formation. “One ...

A proof-of-principle study published in Nature Materials shows that gold nanoparticles loaded with CRISPR and other gene-editing tools safely and effectively edited blood stem cells. (Photos, diagram ...

Researchers have developed an approach to 'deleting' a blood system affected by leukemia while simultaneously building up a new, healthy system with donor blood stem cells. The team reports on the ...

Researchers headed by a team at the University of Basel have developed an approach to treating leukemia that involves “deleting” the affected blood system by removing the leukemia patient’s blood ...