For over fifty years, the scientific community has grappled with an unsolved puzzle in the realm of human blood types. It all ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is exploring ways to enhance red blood cells to make soldiers more resilient in extreme combat situations. The initiative, called the Red Blood ...

Rubius Therapeutics is biologically engineering red blood cells to provide a new class of off-the-shelf cellular therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Three of its product candidates ...

When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen and warp into a sickle shape during periods of ...

Findings of a research project carried out by the Sickle Cell Society into sickle cell patients’ experiences of ambulance ...

Useful in establishing the differential diagnosis of anemia, calculated by automated blood profiling machine from RBC count, hematocrit and hemoglobin Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) Expresses ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood cells to take on a deformed, sickle-like shape, thus giving the disease its name.