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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 ...

Affected populations: Babesiosis is a rare and potentially fatal parasitic disease that destroys red blood cells, the cells that supply tissues with oxygen from the lungs. The disease, which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since the 1960s, massive red blood cell transfusions have been recognized as a risk factor for acute lung injury—a lesson first appreciated during the Vietnam War 3,4.However, data from the ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited red blood cell disorder in the U.S., affecting an estimated 100,000 people, researchers said in background notes. One in every 365 Black ...

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 ...

Iran believe that ultrasonic waves could separate CTCs from red blood cells accurately, in an energy efficient way and in real time. They publish their study in the journal Physics of Fluids. “In a ...