While other countries have used saliva, umbilical cord, or skin cells to extract DNA, Indian scientists have used White Blood Cells (WBCs) to extract DNA.

Neutrophils, one of the immune system warriors that were thought to be all the same, turn out to be diverse. Unfortunately, ...

Stem cells are often described as the body's master cells. Healthy stem cells can restore the blood system after cancer ...

white fat cells transfer their mitochondria to macrophages — white blood cells that hoover up cellular debris. The number of shuttled organelles was reduced in obese mice. The obese mice also ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...

T cells are white blood cells that are important for adaptive immunity. They have unique cell surface receptors that are generated by randomly assorting genes. These receptors allow T cells to ...

RAPID-CRISPR test quickly and accurately diagnoses acute promyelocytic leukemia, a rare and aggressive blood cancer, with high sensitivity.

Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are one of three main components in your blood, along with white blood cells and platelets. Produced by your bone marrow, red blood cells play a key role in ...

Follicular lymphoma is a cancer that affects white blood cells called lymphocytes. They help your body fight infections. There are two types of lymphomas: Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's, based on the ...

With Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), molecular genetics enables the correlation between changes in the structure and ...