There are normally between 4x109 and 11x109 white blood cells in a litre of healthy adult blood - about 7,000 to 25,000 white blood cells per drop.

Most of our body’s fat cells are white (we lose much of our brown fat by the time we turn 1), and these cells are important as a secondary or emergency source of energy.

Leukocytosis is when you have too many white blood cells. Learn about leukocytosis, including what causes it, how it is diagnosed, and which conditions are associated with it.

It's understood that immune cells called helper T cells are overactive in patients with SLE. At last, scientists may have ...

To test this method for northern white rhinos, Katsuhiko Hayashi at Osaka University in Japan and his colleagues first bathed skin cells from a female northern white rhino who died in 2015, called ...

By suppressing one protein, stores of white fat can switch to calorie-burning beige fat, in a feat that so far has eluded scientists working in this field. This means long-lasting weight loss ...

In tests in mice, A485 was found to work quickly and only temporarily, with white blood cell counts dropping back to normal by the 12-hour mark. That might sound like a disadvantage, but it’s ...

But stem cells are rare, and Feldman wanted to find a switch he could flip to turn white fat cells directly into beige ones. “For most of us, white fat cells are not rare and we’re happy to ...

Leukemia can have vague symptoms, or none at all, so it’s often detected through routine blood work. Learn how blood cell counts help detect leukemia and guide treatment.

Understanding White Blood Cells and Their Functions. As per Dr Paritosh Baghel, Senior Consultant- Internal Medicine, SL Raheja Hospital, Mahim, white blood cells are pivotal to our body's defence ...

Cord blood cells are like newborn cells and the team postulates that these umbilical cord blood derived GDT-cells may have an extended lifespan that can potentially prevent or delay cancer relapses.

So they decided to breed mice whose white fat cells lacked KLF-15 entirely. Once they did, the mice’s white fat cells ...