A research team led by Professor Yong Taik Lim at the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan ...

After a person survives a heart attack, the heart has a brief window of time in which it can heal if the right circumstances exist. But most of the time, scar tissue forms in the areas that lacked ...

Macrophages formed in the bone marrow can only assume the function of embryonal phagocytes, or "scavenger cells," to a certain degree according to a study by the University of Bonn and the Peter ...

Macrophages formed in the bone marrow can only assume the function of embryonal phagocytes, or "scavenger cells," to a certain degree according to a study by the University of Bonn and the Peter ...

Recent research led by Carmen Fernández-Becerra and Hernando A del Portillo from ISGlobal and Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has provided new insights into the role of the spleen in ...

Certain features in the spleen hidden within imaging scans may signal a person’s risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a new study led by Harvard Medical School investigators at ...

Integrating single-cell RNA velocity, transcriptomic profiling, and spatial deconvolution were used to demonstrate that the massive neutrophil infiltration in the lung during SARS-CoV-2 infection was ...

Your body is an incredible machine with countless parts working together to keep you healthy. While you’re probably familiar with the superstars — heart, lungs, brain — there’s an underappreciated ...

Scientists are repurposing this once non-essential organ to grow life-saving tissues on demand and from inside the body. The idea of using the body’s own organs as mini bioreactors to grow replacement ...

Dr. Keith Roach addresses a reader's concern about whether an enlarged spleen is the cause of low platelet counts.