Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection ... and mild forms may not require any treatment at all.

The American Airlines flight was forced to turn around over the Atlantic after a passenger on board allegedly became ...

While most current research and immunotherapeutic strategies focus on other immune cells, such as T or natural killer cells, their findings highlight the importance of basophils in antitumor immunity, ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen, white ones fight infections ... cells that help with clotting — can also become irregular. All of this makes blood clots more likely to form, which in turn can ...

Hematopoietic (hee-MA-toh-poy-EH-tik) stem cells (usually just called stem cells) grow into all types of blood cells. The white blood cells fight infection, red blood cells carry oxygen, and platelets ...

Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude serious disease, physicians in all specialties continue to behave as if it did. To assess whether a ...

Leukemia is a type of blood cancer caused by a rise in the number of white blood cells in your body. Many types of leukemia produce no obvious symptoms in the early stages. Leukemia red spots are ...

The Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center held a lecture on how certain white blood cells in the immune ...

Through several intermediate stages, these stem cells develop into oxygen-transporting erythrocytes, blood-clotting platelets, and the large group of white blood ... cells across all cell types.