Platelets are a type of blood cell. They play an important role in healing injuries that result in bleeding. Platelets help your body to form blood clots and stop bleeding. Some people’s platelets don ...

Have you ever been in a classroom and wondered to yourself whether the information being presented could be wrong? During graduate school, I audited a medical school class in which the professor ...

Scientists have identified novel treatments to reduce bleeding in trauma and severe infections. The research, from Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists ...

Platelets are small types of blood cells that prevent excessive bleeding. It’s possible to develop low or high platelet counts related to a number of health conditions. Platelets are one of the main ...

Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular barrier which ...

Figure 1: Presence of Cx40 and effects of its inhibition on platelet function. Figure 3: Inhibition or deletion of Cx40 reduces platelet inside-out signalling and granule secretion. The observed ...

A new understanding of novel functions of platelets could lead to new treatments to reduce bleeding in trauma and severe infections. A new finding could lead to novel treatments to reduce bleeding in ...

A new study successfully identifies new genetic variants involved in the formation of platelets and more importantly, defines how genes near these variants affect platelet size and number using a ...

There are different types of blood cells in our body that perform different functions. Platelets are also one type of blood cells. Role of platelets is to heal the injuries and form blood clots that ...