University of Kentucky College of Medicine researcher Sidney Whiteheart has been awarded a prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute (NHBLI) for his ...

Without platelets, we would die pretty easily. The microscopic plate-shaped structures in our bloodstream rush to the site of an injury, forming clots that stop blood loss and help stimulate the ...

Research carried out by the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has revealed new information about how blood clots are formed during wound healing. The study “Platelets drive fibronectin ...

Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, along with collaborators in Germany and Switzerland, say their work has revealed new ...

SALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah researchers led an international team of scientists that is the first to report on the previously undescribed ability of platelets to reproduce themselves in the ...