When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread ...

Until recently, researchers believed that platelet spreading and clot contraction were controlled by the same pathway. However a recent study from Thomas Jefferson University researchers challenges ...

Lentz, director of molecular and cellular biophysics at the University of North Carolina (UNC), purports to present "compelling evidence" that the lipid molecule phosphatidylserine (PS) is the key ...

Kanpur: Achieving a breakthrough in emergency care and healthcare, the researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology ...

A new concentrate of clotting factors II, VII, IX and X, made from pooled human plasma collected in citrate anticoagulant by a process involving the adsorption of the effluent from Cohn fraction I ...

One of the steps in hemostasis is known as γ-carboxylation (gamma carboxylation) — and the findings from this study offer new observations related to the process. Certain coagulation and ...

The anti-clotting agent in their saliva uses a two-pronged process, binding to the surface of certain clotting proteins in the host's blood, and entering into the protein's core to temporarily ...

A study found that intermittent fasting may help minimize components of the blood clotting process by enhancing the production of indole-3-propionic acid by gut microorganisms. Blood clots can be ...