Tuesday 8 April 2014

Melbourne Researchers Claim to Have Solved Platelet Puzzle Linked With Blood Disorder

Researchers in Melbourne claim that they have managed to solve the puzzle of how the production of the blood clotting cells known as platelets is stimulated by an essential blood-making hormone. Platelets are essential for stopping bleeding and are produced by small fragments breaking off their 'parent' cells, called megakaryocytes. The discovery, made by scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, identified how bone marrow cells could become ...

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