Polycythemia vera (PV) causes your bone marrow to make too many red blood cells. You need these cells to carry oxygen around your body, but too many of them can make your blood thicken and form clots.

is a blood cancer that begins in the marrow of your bones, the soft center where new blood cells grow. It causes your marrow to make too many red blood cells so your blood is too thick.

These stem cells are the body’s blood factories, churning out red blood cells ... meaning they were unlikely to lead to ...

Researchers harness standing acoustic waves to separate microspheres that mimic circulating tumour cells in a blood sample ...

They then grew these cells in two environments: one containing erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production which is typically upregulated after blood donations ...

“The results remind us: Don’t forget the basophil,” said study author Chih-Hao Chang, a cancer immunologist at The Jackson Laboratory. While most current research and immunotherapeutic strategies ...

a type of blood cancer. "It's a type of mutation that is not associated with high risk of leukaemia development," study author Dr Hector Huerga Encabo said. And when mice were injected with these ...

An experimental medicine from Protagonist Therapeutics stabilized red blood cells and improved symptoms in patients with a rare blood cancer — achieving the efficacy goals of a Phase 3 study.