Plasma makes up about 55 percent of your blood. It carries out several key functions in the body, including transporting waste products. Read on to learn more about plasma, including what it’s made of ...

In basic science, children are taught there are three states of matter – solid, liquid and gas. Plasma is now described as the fourth state of matter. It's formed when energy is applied to a gas, ...

Plasma has long been treated as an exotic laboratory curiosity, yet a new world-first result is forcing scientists to look at this fiery state of matter as something far more familiar. By uncovering a ...

When you’re financially strapped, selling plasma can be an appealing option to drum up some quick cash. Pharmaceutical companies often pay around $50 per donation for the pale-yellow blood component, ...

Professor Satoshi Fujii (Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) and Assistant Professor Jun Fukushima (Department of Applied Chemistry, ...

For about 20 years, Caltech Professor of Applied Physics Paul Bellan and his group have been creating magnetically accelerated jets of plasma, an electrically conducting gas composed of ions and ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have devised a method of creating and launching rings of plasma through open air. Depending on your point of view, this could have significant repercussions ...

Plasma cell leukemia (PCL) is a rare, aggressive subtype of multiple myeloma. Between 1973 and 2009, it’s estimated that PCL made up 0.6 percent of multiple myeloma diagnoses in the United States.