Myeloblasts are precursors to specific types of white blood cells that help your body fight infections. Too many myeloblasts may be a sign of a blood cancer like leukemia. Myeloblasts, or blast cells, ...

From the moment they're born, newborns—or, specifically, their immune systems—must learn to fight germs without harming their own tissues.

Thanks to efforts from doctors, researchers, health care providers and nonprofits such as Blood Cancer United, certain types of blood cancers are not the terminal diagnoses that these were decades ago ...

Leukemia is a blood cancer that disrupts normal cell production, leading to infection risk, anemia and bleeding, and requiring tailored treatments.

Lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of diseases that cause an uncontrolled production of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. Examples include non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and certain leukemias.

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are a group of rare blood cancers in which the bone marrow produces an excess combination of white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. This overproduction ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) are advancing a smart ...

A new Finnish study from University of Turku shows that already a 30-minute exercise can increase the proportion of tumor-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer patients. White ...

There’s unexpected movement in the world of cell biology — specifically, with the energy factories known as mitochondria. Ever since they were discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, mitochondria ...