Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

(THE CONVERSATION) In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade ...

Researchers are still trying to figure out why there are so many, but these different blood types can have deadly downsides. The surface of our red blood cells have proteins, called antigens ...

An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.

An international team of UK and US scientists has discovered that the activity of macrophages—a type of white blood cell that ...

Just days before Quinyana Price rushed to the HCMC emergency room in Minneapolis, Betsy Murray went to Memorial Blood Center ...

After years of controversy, stem cells are on the cusp of cures for conditions like epilepsy and type 1 diabetes.