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

When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule ...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a rare blood cancer that causes your body to make too many red blood cells. Extra cells may not sound like a problem, but they are. They thicken your blood, which means ...

A high MCV means your red blood cells are larger than normal. A high MCV can be associated with a group of cancers called myelodysplastic syndromes. However, other causes of high MCV, such as ...

Contrary to what you likely learned in school, ferrying oxygen isn’t the only function of red blood cells. In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show ...

One of the vets went up to Callis and said, “Do you know you have red blood cells in that bone?” Sure enough, under a microscope, it appeared that the bone was filled with red disks.

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 ...

They grew these cells in two environments: one containing erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production which is increased after each blood donation, and another ...