Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

What do healthy bone marrow cells in children look like? For the first time, researchers have mapped this out. Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center examined nearly 91,000 individual bone marrow ...

One huge reason why the world of medicine hasn’t yet found “the cure” for hard-to-treat malignancies like acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and many other forms of cancer is that the world of science is ...

A blood and marrow transplant (BMT) is a treatment used for certain cancer types that works by resetting the body’s ability to make healthy blood cells. It does this by replacing damaged or destroyed ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...