Platelets play an essential role in wound healing. Underproduction can cause devastating bleeding, while overproduction increases the deadly risk of thromboses. Maintaining a constant level of ...

A study in EMBO Reports reports that G6PD deficiency is associated with elevated platelet counts in patients and mice, and ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the surface protein integrin αIIbβ3 is not only a key molecule in blood clotting, ...

A diabetes drug called sotagliflozin made blood platelets less likely to clump together in laboratory experiments. That ...

The glycoprotein V of the blood platelets is an important switch point for haemostasis and thrombus formation. This new finding could have great clinical potential. When our blood vessels are injured ...

A new review describes how platelet–neutrophil crosstalk and NETosis create premetastatic niches and outlines nanotherapeutic ...

For millions living with type 2 diabetes, heart disease remains one of the greatest threats to their health.

A newly published study has shed light on how sotagliflozin, a medicine used to treat certain patients with diabetes and ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, researchers investigated the role of platelets in the adverse immune response against a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...