Key Biologics (A Cellero Company) is open and maintaining normal operations. To ensure that we can maintain normal operations as the spread of COVID-19 continues, we have activated our business continuity plans. Our management teams are focused on overseeing our response to the evolving situation. COVID-19 has not impacted Key Biologics’ ability to deliver any…
Assessing an individual’s eligibility to safely donate blood products has always been and remains our highest priority. To accomplish this, we use a several stepped process, learn more about our process below. Key Biologics (A Cellero Company) has transitioned over the past two plus decades from a department within an FDA-registered community blood center providing…
MMRF Funds Critical Research Relying on Patients Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation + NexImmune Partnership MMRF’s mission to advance new multiple myeloma therapy into clinical trials for MM patients includes a new formal partnership with NexImmune. A world leader in cancer research, the MMRF’s investment will advance NexImmune’s promising immuno oncology drug candidate NEXI-002 and support…
Immune therapy to fight cancer specifically programs a patient’s own immune system to target & destroy invading disease cells. The ability of immunotherapy to more strategically combat cancer than general cancer treatments do is only now being fully understood. And as scientists excitedly recognize immunotherapies’ potential is far greater than first imagined, donor blood cells…
Blood Stem Cells Power Supply Blood stem cells produce billions of new blood cells daily, providing the 3 blood cell types that sustain human life: Oxygen-carrying red blood cells, Clot-forming platelets that stop bleeding, Disease-fighting white blood cells Without constant new blood cell production, survival is threatened. Blood Stem Cells Only Make More Blood Cells…
White blood cells play a vital immune system role as weapons against illness and disease. One kind of white blood cell in particular, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PMNCs or simply MNCs), circulates through the body targeting bacteria, viruses – and even cancer. Bacterial and viral invader cells generally are killed by MNCs; but cancer cells…
Cancer Patients Give Blood Cells to Advance Treatment Studies Cancer patients are fighting back and helping advance the development of cutting edge cancer treatments by giving blood cells for laboratory medical research. Patients giving small amounts of white blood cells allow preclinical scientists to study the potential effectiveness and critical safety of innovative immune treatments.…
Throughout their lives, many people will donate blood. Far fewer people, however, will donate bone marrow. For this reason, serious bone marrow donors are desperately needed. If you are considering donating bone marrow, you need to prepare yourself for this process. Keep reading to learn what you need to know. Know Everything You Can About…
Diabetes is a disease that affects approximately 9.4 percent of the American population. If you manage diabetes properly with a healthy diet, exercise, and regular blood sugar monitoring, you lead a healthier life. Donating blood is a selfless way to save lives — as many as three people can benefit from a single donation. You…
Did you know that the average adult human body contains up to 1.5 gallons of blood? Over half of that blood in the human body is made up of a liquid called plasma. The rest is made up of three different kinds of cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. These cells are considered the solid…