Today’s hematology analyzers employ various methods for enumerating platelets, including electrical impedance, light scatter, fluorescence, and immunologic recognition by monoclonal antibodies. While ...

video: UW researchers have created a novel system that can measure platelet function within two minutes and can help doctors determine which trauma patients might need a blood transfusion upon being ...

But donor platelet isolation is expensive and labor intensive, and donor platelets can be attacked by the patient's immune systems as "foreign." Therefore, Koji Eto and colleagues sought a method for ...

Leukemia starts in the bone marrow and can crowd out healthy cells, replacing them with abnormal leukemic cells. This often lowers red blood cell and platelet counts, causing fatigue and easy bleeding ...