TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A recent Tyler ISD graduate has created a 3-D animation to help students better understand a complicated biological process. To make a particular biology topic easier to digest, ...

CHAPEL HILL -- New research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that a fatty molecule on the surface of platelet cells is a regulator of blood coagulation. Besides its role in ...

More than 8 million people in the U.S. take blood thinners, also called anticoagulants. Many are prescribed the drugs after ...

When our blood vessels are injured by cuts, abrasions, or bruises, it is vital that the bleeding is stopped, and the wound is sealed. This process is called hemostasis and involves two main components ...

When an injury occurs, coagulation proteins are integral to forming clots (thrombosis) and stopping bleeding (hemostasis). Dr. Clay Cohen, assistant professor of pediatric hematology and oncology at ...

Few bodily functions are as misunderstood as blood clots. While most people have heard about blood clots in the heart or brain causing serious issues or even death, fewer realize that blood clotting ...

Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a protein crucial to the blood clotting process. If you don’t have enough of this protein, or if it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, you may have von Willebrand disease ...

Nature gave ticks, mosquitoes and leaches a quick-acting way to keep blood from clotting while they extract their meal from a host. Now the key to that method has been harnessed by a team of ...

Researchers at McMaster University have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of hematology, providing an explanation for spontaneous and unusual blood-clotting that continues to occur despite ...