FRANKFURT. Every second, an adult generates around five million new blood cells to replace aging or dying ones, making the ...

What Is Cord Blood Banking? Cord blood banking is a process of collecting potentially life-saving stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta and storing them for future use. Stem cells are ...

Additionally, the researchers found that while humans rely on a pool of 20,000 to 200,000 stem cells for blood production, mice have a surprisingly large number too—about 70,000 blood stem cells ...

Hematopoietic (hee-MA-toh-poy-EH-tik) stem cells (usually just called stem cells) grow into all types of blood cells. The white blood cells fight infection, red blood cells carry oxygen, and platelets ...