Saturday, 3 March 2012

Red Blood Cells-Megakaryocytes

How Red Blood Cells Get So Big - And The Bad Things That Happen When They Don't

Yale researchers have discovered how megakaryocytes - giant Blood Cells that produce wound-healing platelets - manage to grow 10 to 15 times larger than other blood cells. The findings, to be published March 13 in the journal Developmental Cell, also hint at how a malfunction in this process may cause a form of leukemia... read more..

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