When the book of Leviticus and the fifth book of Moses said that blood “is the life of all flesh” (Leviticus 17:11; 14), and that “the blood is the life” (Deuteronomy 12:23), they probably had no idea ...

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is offering a novel hypothesis to possibly explain the long-standing idea that transfusions of young blood can help reverse the ...

Transfusing young mice with blood from older rodents quickly triggers ageing, suggesting that cellular ageing isn’t just a case of wear and tear. There is a longstanding hypothesis that surgically ...

Scientists in Japan have been able, for the first time, to successfully clone a mouse from a blood sample drawn from a living donor's tail. By Joey Carmichael Published Jun 27, 2013 8:59 PM EDT Get ...

Did you ever think of jellyfish or a salamander as fluorescent? That is actually the case. Both animals have proteins in their bodies that enables them to light up. Researchers from the University of ...

Can transfusions of “young blood” make old people healthier? That’s the hope of a few startup companies and some wish-to-live-forever billionaires who think transfusions from youngsters might delay ...

When a baby is born, the now-useless umbilical cord is usually thrown away. But sometimes, it finds renewed purpose. Parents can decide to donate the blood from the cord to blood banks, which freeze ...

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We recommend a Wright stain (right) for mouse blood cells rather than Diff-Quick® (left), as the latter doesn't stain mouse eosinophils well. (For each stain, neutrophils are on the left, eosinophils ...