Transplants derived from stem cells could replenish red blood cells and was useful in treating severe anemia in mice September 28, 2017October 1, 2017Rina Soetanto Comment The kidney makes a hormone called “erythropoietin (EPO)”, which triggers the production of red blood cells. The production of EPO is reduced in patients with
White blood cells poke little holes in your blood vessels to get out January 22, 2017January 23, 2017Rina Soetanto Comment The walls of your blood vessels are very good at keeping blood cells in. But to protect you from pathogens, white blood cells need to
Clinical trial using CRISPR-edited white blood cells to treat lung cancer January 12, 2017June 21, 2017Rina Soetanto Comment A clinical trial using genetically-modified white blood cells is now underway in China for lung cancer. The trial, led by Dr. You Lu at the
How do white blood cells actually kill cancer cells? January 5, 2017January 7, 2017Rina Soetanto Comment I recently wrote a post about a clinical trial that freed a woman from her advanced cancer. Her treatment used her own white blood cells –
An on-going clinical trial frees a woman from advanced colon cancer January 4, 2017August 29, 2017Rina Soetanto 3 A 50-year old woman who suffered from colon cancer that had spread to her lungs is now free from cancer following a clinical trial using her own
Trapping viruses with red blood cells December 12, 2016January 18, 2017Jack Simpson 1 Did you know that erythrocytes (that’s a fancy name for red blood cells) don’t have DNA? While most of the cells in the human body
