Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, quitting smoking, managing diabetes: these evidence-backed approaches remain key ways to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (SN: 11/9/15). But an ...

A new study has shed light on a previously poorly understood aspect of breast cancer recurrence: how cancer cells survive in bone marrow despite targeted therapies. A study from researchers at the ...

A team has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new means ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD), the most common inherited blood disorder, affects millions worldwide. In the United States alone, it impacts over 100,000 individuals, predominantly African Americans. The ...

Chimeric antigen receptor-T cell (CAR-T cell) therapies have been a significant advance in the field of cancer immunotherapeutics in recent years, particularly for B-cell malignancies. Yet, this ...

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 ...

A mouse experiment suggested familial Alzheimer's disease may be transmitted through bone marrow stem cells, but the implications of the findings were limited. The research involved transplanting bone ...

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts ...

Our bone marrow—the fatty, jelly-like substance inside our bones—is an unseen powerhouse quietly producing 500 billion new blood cells every day. That process is driven by hematopoietic stem cells ...

A study of 14 astronauts suggests that while space travel depletes red blood cells and bone, the body can eventually replenish them back on Earth with the help of fat stored in the bone marrow. The ...