Colour-enhanced image of platelets (green) and red blood cells. Platelets are necessary for the blood clotting process and are generated from large cells called megakaryocytes. Neither platelets nor ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen, white ones fight infections, and platelets clot your blood to stop bleeding. Most people with polycythemia vera have too many red blood cells. But it can also cause ...

Since platelets can internalize recombinant lentiviruses without fusion of their envelope with the cell plasma membrane, platelets might be used in gene therapy for the transport of lentiviral ...

There are four components - or parts - of the blood: red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. Blood carries things you need, like oxygen and glucose, and waste products ...

A high MCV means your red blood ... lower than normal blood counts on blood work. Since MDS affects the blood cells of the bone marrow, the RBCs, white blood cells, and platelets can all be ...

NEWARK – A new American Red Cross blood donation site at North 21st and Church streets is more than a place to give blood.

When Don Mulvey was a teenager growing up in Montreal he accompanied his father to a blood donation ... his platelets without fear of rejection from the body. Platelets are cells that form clots ...

Researchers explore the role of a high-fat diet in promoting the formation of premetastatic niches and platelet activation.

BRIGHTON, Mich. (WILX) - People living in Livingston County now have a new place to donate their blood and platelets. The American Red Cross officially opened its newest blood and platelet ...