Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known ...

The trend of old Dragon Ball villains making returns with fancy new forms raises some interesting questions about what former ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, became the first person in New York state to be made symptom-free of sickle cell disease after ...

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 ...

Rubius Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, that is developing allogeneic cell therapies based on biologically engineered red blood cells (RBCs).

whilst in the adult these cells, especially the red cells, are here broken down and destroyed when they become worn out. It appears from recent work by Prof. J. Barcroft and his collaborators ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A.S. Smith et al., “Myosin IIA interacts with the spectrin-actin membrane skeleton to control red blood cell membrane curvature and deformability ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified genetic changes in blood stem cells from frequent blood donors that support the production of new, non-cancerous cells.

Red blood cells placed in a solution with the same water concentration as their cytoplasm (0.85 per cent salt solution) will not experience an overall change in volume. No osmosis occurs.

In one way to mark American Red Cross Month, the disaster response organization is spreading the world of the impact of ...