During ageing, bone marrow in the skull becomes an increasingly important site of blood-cell production. This is in stark contrast to most bones where the ability of marrow to make blood and immune ...

Our bone marrow the fatty, jelly-like substance inside our bones is an unseen powerhouse quietly producing 500 billion new blood cells every day. That process is driven by hematopoietic stem cells ...

Shyni Varghese of University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues have devised a way to skip this step: they have created a synthetic bone that can be filled with donor stem cells and ...

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that starts in your bone marrow. This is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones that makes most of your blood cells. It includes plasma cells, which help ...