One way cancer specialists detect the disease is by examining cells and bodily fluids under a microscope, a time-consuming ...

Berlin, Germany: Aneuploidy (the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes) in embryos is a major cause of impaired embryo development, leading to conditions such as Down syndrome, as well as to ...

The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a pea under a stack of mattresses. When it comes to human biology, it also takes ...

Throughout a person's lifetime, the cells lining the respiratory tract are exposed to inhaled pollutants, including cigarette ...

A high MCV means your red blood cells are larger than normal. A high MCV can be associated with a group of cancers called myelodysplastic syndromes. However, other causes of high MCV, such as vitamin ...

Many scientists today work in a laboratory environment designed to study the small things. Micropipette in hand, researchers slave for weeks, months, or years over a few microliters of solution that ...

Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL) is a condition in which a person has an excessive amount of abnormal B cells, which are a type of white blood cell known as lymphocytes. The number of abnormal B ...