Sometimes called primitive hematopoiesis, hematopoiesis in the embryo produces only red blood cells that can provide developing organs with oxygen. At this stage in development, the yolk sac ...

On average, the human body contains 35 trillion red blood cells (RBCs ... Epigenetic modulation in early hematopoiesis The lab of Asifa Akhtar at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown biological process that causes tissue and organ damage in conditions where oxygen is low, such as heart attacks and strokes. The study suggests that ...

Patients with clonal hematopoiesis have trouble making healthy red and white blood cells. Instead, these patients start to produce blood cells with scrambled genomes, which eventually develop into ...

and factors related to red blood cell volume. The researchers combined these measures together into a computational algorithm, creating a tool that calculates a clonal hematopoiesis risk score ...

This phenomenon is called clonal hematopoiesis (CH ... appeared to boost the cells’ ability to regenerate new red blood cells under stressful conditions mimicking blood loss, for instance.

Bone marrow is a spongy tissue found inside some of your bones. Your body uses it to make white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Bone marrow is the soft tissue in your bones that makes ...

Changes in blood are detectable at age 50 and universal by 60, paving the way for spotting early signs of unhealthy aging.

These mutations increase the cells’ ability to replicate, creating a fertile environment for clonal hematopoiesis, a condition that significantly raises the risk of heart disease, blood cancers and ...