A key diagnostic step in disease detection is analyzing blood components. Accurate separation of blood cells from plasma, which holds proteins and other constituents, is crucial in many assays. First ...

Blood separation is the dividing of whole blood into its various components. Whole blood is often isolated for therapeutic and diagnostic reasons, including research. For this to be achieved, ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been framed as a problem of misfolded proteins and dying neurons, but a new wave of research is shifting attention to something far more accessible: the blood that bathes ...

Background: Transfusion-dependent bone marrow transplant recipients are routinely transfused with ABO group and RhD-compatible blood components. However, because of the scarcity of RhD-negative blood ...

Developing drugs that stop blood vessel growth in cancer — causing tumors to shrink — is a hot area in pharmaceuticals. Still, researchers and clinicians don’t know as much as they would like about ...

Plasma is the largest single component of blood. It consists of water, vital proteins, and other substances that play a role in coagulation, immunity, blood pressure, and transporting nutrients.

Scientists studying how developing blood cells migrate to their proper destinations in fruit flies have discovered the ancestral role of a protein better known for ensuring that tumors have adequate ...

Blood plasma is a light yellow liquid that makes up about half of a person’s blood. Blood plasma is vital for fighting infection, maintaining correct blood pH levels, helping blood to clot, and ...

To search for answers about how blood droplets from a gunshot wound can reverse direction while in flight, researchers explored the influence of propellant gases on blood backspatter. They report ...