Myeloblasts are precursors to specific types of white blood cells that help your body fight infections. Too many myeloblasts may be a sign of a blood cancer like leukemia. Myeloblasts, or blast cells, ...

White blood cells help your body fight inflammation and infections. A high or low white blood cell count may be associated with a number of short-term or long-term health conditions. White blood cells ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are two different types of leukemia. Both conditions affect white blood cells. CML affects a type of white blood cell called ...

Gleevec contains the drug imatinib, which belongs to a class of drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Medications in the TKI drug class are targeted therapies. They affect specific proteins ...

Findings expand Telomir-1’s oncology profile into cancers of the blood, adding to previously reported activity in triple-negative breast, pancreatic, and aggressive prostate cancer models. MIAMI, FL / ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...