On December 21, 1933, biochemists Stuart Mudd and Earl Flosdorf tasted success for the first time in their efforts to prepare dried human blood serum. While it remained a novelty until the onset of ...

Blood is full of a number of things. There are the red cells, which contain oxygen-carrying hemoglobin and are used in transfusions for anemia.There are white cells, which rush to defend the system ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development—including the production ...