Platelet-survival studies after labeling with 51 Cr demonstrated shortened life-spans of the patients' platelets both in themselves and in normal volunteers. Platelets from healthy volunteers ...

In these instances, your body uses up platelets to repair the wound and stop the blood loss. In response, your bone marrow makes more megakaryocytes, cells that become young, large platelets ...

There are four components - or parts - of the blood: red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. Blood carries things you need, like oxygen and glucose, and waste products ...

It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

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This giant virus has a much larger size and bigger ... To further analyze this large virus, investigators next compared the putative Mimivirus genes to known gene sequences from other viruses ...

Platelets are circulating cell fragments known to clump up and form blood clots that stop bleeding in injured vessels.

The giant Pacific octopus grows bigger and lives longer than any other octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen that was 30 feet across and weighed more than 600 pounds. Averages are ...

He stood at a stately 3 feet, 2 inches tall but his owners described him as a “gentle giant.” Sadly, Kevin died less than two weeks after the Guinness Book of World Records crowned him the ...

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