Scientists identify a way that chemotherapy causes platelet numbers to drop
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.
Scientists have found that cells from different people don''t react the same way when exposed to the same DNA-damaging agent, something, which may help in understanding why chemotherapy works for some people and not for others.