Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a ...

Blood usually falls into a few widely recognized categories or types, based on the proteins that are expressed on the surface of red blood cells. For example, A or B antigens may be present there, ...

For years, the pancreas has been being taught in biology class as an easy system: insulin lowers blood sugar, and glucagon raises it. But that’s much too simple, new research says.

Thanks to efforts from doctors, researchers, health care providers and nonprofits such as Blood Cancer United, certain types of blood cancers are not the terminal diagnoses that these were decades ago ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has revealed how a common inherited mutation disrupts red blood cell development and sparks inflammation that can lead to leukemia, according to findings published in ...

From the moment they're born, newborns—or, specifically, their immune systems—must learn to fight germs without harming their ...