Researchers have identified the molecular mechanism behind vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, or VITT, a rare clotting disorder that emerged in a small number of people who received ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting (thrombosis) are now turning their attention to sepsis.

Scientists found a vaccine link to rare clotting disorder vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) ...

As people age they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, which can be caused when blood platelets clump together. This clumping can lead to strokes and cardiovascular disease. For decades, ...

Inflammatory bowel disease, in which the immune system attacks the gut, is a painful chronic condition that affects three million Americans. Rates of IBD are rising, and there's currently no cure. IBD ...

When a vascular injury occurs, platelets in young mice form much smaller blood clots (left) than platelets in old mice (right), where the clot almost blocks the blood vessel. Fluorescence microscopy ...

A cut presumably draws blood anywhere in the universe, whether in an Earthly suburb or on some future interstellar voyage yet ...