How our lungs back up the bone marrow to make our blood Date: February 27, 2025 Source: University of California - San Francisco Summary: Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs.

Unfortunately, those same defenses can make directly treating the lungs, when they do get sick with those diseases, tricky. Consider first what a harmful substance, like a bacterium, needs to do ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...