Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

More than 100 years ago, Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovered that not all red blood cells are alike. He found that, when different people's blood was mixed, it would often clump up and curdle, destroying ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

In an allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplant, the blood system of a recipient with a haematological disease is replaced with that of a tissue-matched donor. For many individuals with such diseases, ...