Study insights could improve current understanding of neurodegenerative diseases as well as interpretations of brain scans.

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 percent of its total energy. To stay within budget, the brain must be highly ...

All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions.

All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making ...

And civilians who give blood at public Red Cross drives may support military personnel by helping maintain a robust community blood supply which will be shared with the military when needed.

Davenport, Iowa, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ImpactLife is seeing the effect of summer vacation season on our region’s blood supply, and with the Fourth of July weekend just ahead, the ...

The Connecticut Blood Center has issued an urgent call for type O- and B- blood donors as its supply is currently at a two-day level heading into the summer. “Seasonal declines in blood ...

To test whether their organoids could treat injured tissue, the researchers surgically cut off the blood supply to one leg of several mice, so it was less than 10 per cent of normal levels.

One person, six months, forty-two bags of platelets, forty blood transfusions – the numbers don’t lie. Without blood donors, Ian would not have lived to receive the bone marrow transplant ...

As a transfusion medicine physician, Jeremy W. Jacobs has increasingly faced requests for “unvaccinated donor blood.” So he and colleagues looked closer at what the data say.

Atlantic hurricane season began this month. Disasters like hurricanes and severe summer weather can disrupt blood drives for several days and impact the momentum of a growing blood supply. Help ...