When you hear about blood shortages, that doesn’t just mean there’s a shortage of donated red blood cells. It could also mean platelets, a blood component that Sven Karlsson described as Band-Aids of ...

The Center for Health Sciences is a complex maze to most students – but behind one particular door, another intricate system of machines works around the clock to filter, sort and label units of ...

Tokyo, Nov 29 (PTI) Scientists have developed a way to grow human platelets in the laboratory from stem cells derived from fat tissue — an advance that may reduce the dependence of patients with ...

Wounded soldiers or surgery patients could soon get new help to stop the bleeding. A lab has successfully created tiny, disk-shaped cells that mimic the human body's natural platelets, which allow ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD You may need an MPV test if you show symptoms that suggest an issue with your platelet ...