Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MD Key Takeaways Bone marrow fills the cavities in your bones and produces blood ...

A newly uncovered immune chain reaction in the gut may explain why people with inflammatory bowel disease face a much higher ...

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 ...

Melbourne researchers have made a world first breakthrough into creating blood stem cells that closely resemble those in the human body. And the discovery could soon lead to personalized treatments ...

A new study has given leukemia researchers a powerful new dataset and collection of analytical methods—and a starting point for future research. One common treatment for leukemia is hematopoietic stem ...

EMBL scientists discovered self-sustaining inflammatory circuits in the bone marrow stem cell microenvironment that precede blood cancers. The illustration shows cancer cells against a background of ...

A chain of immune reactions in the gut—driven by a key signaling protein and a surge of white blood cells from the bone ...

An immunotherapy kept multiple myeloma at bay for over 80 percent of patients in a three-year clinical trial, and the FDA ...

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 ...

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 ...