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The physician and researcher challenged the Chinese government over her findings of widespread hepatitis and HIV contamination during blood collection.

The birds also decrease their heart rate and chill their blood to maintain flight in hypoxic conditions.

The finding overturns the idea that the insect’s first victims were bats and reveals that certain species started targeting humans as a side snack, not as a main meal.

A mouse study finds that when blood platelets are activated during exercise, they release factors that increase the number of newborn neurons in the hippocampus.

The agency warns that plasma treatments costing thousands of dollars, which supposedly treat the infirmities of old age, have not been proven “safe or effective.”

The observation could pave the way for a blood test to predict disease progression in people with a genetic predisposition to developing the neurodegenerative disorder.

Researchers find that stem cells in the human intestine may provide up to 10 percent of circulating blood cells.

Myosin proteins tug on the cell membrane, giving an erythrocyte its distinct shape.

Scientists are searching for signatures of mammals within the blood meals of the invertebrates.

The uncommon hue is present in skinks that aren’t closely related, but the advantage of the odd trait remains anyone’s guess.  

Researchers stumbled across the connection while searching for ways to reduce vision problems in people with achromatopsia.

In cooperation with its microbiome, the animal has genetic help in digesting blood and warding off pathogens.

The test uses levels of plasma amyloid-β to estimate the buildup of protein plaques in the brain.

In Drosophila larvae, the formation of blood cells takes place in a specialized organ, the lymph gland.

High-dose vitamin C injections reverse the effects of a leukemia-promoting genetic deficiency.

Scientists have estimated that about half of murine platelet production occurs in the lungs.

Researchers identify transcription factors and environmental conditions necessary to reprogram human and mouse cells into cells that function like hematopoietic stem cells.

Artificial bones produce new blood cells in mice, obviating the need for irradiation to kill off resident hematopoietic stem cells in recipients.

Blood donation centers across the U.S. are required to screen samples for signs of the mosquito-borne virus. Some have questioned whether it’s always necessary.

While studying the progression of healthy cells into cancerous ones, researchers discover a way to engraft human blood cells into animals.