Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Pluripotent stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into the three primary germ cell layers of the early embryo and therefore into all cells of the ...

Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MD Bone marrow is the deep, interior portion of your bone. Your bone marrow, which has ...

Gustav Klimt attended discussions of scientific developments, like the microscope, which he incorporated into his work ...

At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

Power Red donors give a concentrated dose of red blood cells – the most commonly transfused blood component. Two blood drives are scheduled in McLeod County in early December. The first is from ...

Red tide cell counts are well into the "death zone" in Lee County waters as toxins in the Gulf have turned normally turquoise waters copper. The Florida Department of Health in Lee County issued ...

Acanthocyte Erythrocyte identified by numerous spiny cytoplasmic projections; similar to a Burr cell Acanthocytosis, condition in which the majority of erythrocytes are acanthocytes. Anemia ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...

Cutting into a perfectly cooked piece of chicken, you might spot a pinkish or reddish hue near the bone and instinctively think it’s undercooked or, worse, blood. But here’s the surprise — it’s not ...