Discover the current challenges in diagnosing multiple myeloma and how advances in diagnostic technologies could help ...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) announced Wednesday that the European Commission has granted approval for its Darzalex ...

Fig. 1. Most of plasma cells that arrive at bone marrow are short-lived B220(hi) MHC-II(hi) cells. A small fraction of them become immobilized to bone marrow niches and progressively differentiate ...

After hearing she had two months to live, Middlesex Township resident Wanda Stouffer learned she'd qualified for a treatment ...

The first sign of multiple myeloma varies by person and may not occur until a later stage of the disease. Learn how to ...

He separated red blood cells from plasma to treat kidney failure in dogs. Abel took the name from a Greek word meaning "withdrawal." Plasmapheresis has been a treatment for multiple myeloma since ...

Plasma cells are terminally differentiated B cells responsible for antibody production. To better understand the roles of these cells in early lung cancer development, ...

Many plasma cells die shortly after participating in an immune response, but a small population of plasma cells called long-lived plasma cells (LLPCs) can survive in the body for months or even years.

Plasma cells are B cell descendants that have become fully specialized. They have matured into machines whose sole purpose is to churn out antibodies of a specific design. Several different drugs are ...