A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

They discovered that the progenitor cells of MKs are fully consumed and constantly replaced during platelet formation (thrombopoiesis). This decisive process is regulated by the innate immune system ...

Dr. David Stegner david.stegner@uni-wuerzburg.de Institute of Experimental Biomedicine – Chair I, University Hospital Würzburg & Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, ...

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 ...

Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...