In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers explored neutrophil involvement in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) inflammation in obesity. Study: Obesity-associated microbiomes ...

New research reveals that two different white blood cell types influence cardiac arrhythmia, suggesting that treatments that influence these cells may help reduce patients' risk of sudden cardiac ...

Sometimes, diseases or infections can cause low white blood cell counts. Increasing white blood cells involves treating the underlying cause, diet, medications, and supplementing vitamins. White blood ...

Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to ...

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, ...

The three major types of blood cancer are leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. All three types usually affect the growth and function of white blood cells. Leukemia affects immature white blood cells, ...

White blood cells are important foot soldiers in the immune system, but their numbers can be cut by health conditions or treatments like chemotherapy. Yale scientists have now discovered a molecule ...

A new Finnish study from University of Turku shows that already a 30-minute exercise can increase the proportion of tumor-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer patients. White ...

Cytokine release. Image by Scientific Animations (CC BY-SA 4.0) Cytokine release. Image by Scientific Animations (CC BY-SA 4.0) A new Finnish study from the University of Turku shows that a 30-minute ...

BOSTON – Patients with heart disease are at risk of experiencing a potentially lethal “electrical storm” involving recurrent episodes of a type of irregular heartbeat called ventricular tachycardia ...