A study demonstrates that the 'previous state' of blood stem cells plays a decisive role in the subtype of leukemia that develops. The new technique, called STRACK, allows monitoring of the evolution ...

Health officials have started monitoring BA.2.86 — a highly mutated version of the COVID-19 virus. Not much is known yet about the newly detected lineage, though its large number of mutations has ...

The understanding of the link between common genetic mutations and certain cancers is increasing. An international group of researchers investigated why mutations often associated with renal cancer ...

FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus ...

—Do secondary mutations explain why patients with AML with a history of myelodysplasia-related changes and the NPM1 mutation have outcomes that are inferior to those in patients with normal ...

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same leukemia-causing gene mutation can have dramatically different outcomes: It depends on ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it has begun tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly-mutated variant was ...

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets ...

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90 percent of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, ...