Discovery helps explain why chemo causes drop in platelet numbers

Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified a way that chemotherapy causes platelet numbers to drop, answering in the process a decade-old question about the formation of platelets, tiny cells that allow blood to clot.

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