3d rendering red blood cells in vein. getty. Efforts to develop lab-grown blood cells for blood transfusions may soon materialize. Since 2021, the National Health Service (NHS) in the United ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and ETH Zürich have created the first ...

A breakthrough in the understanding of how mammals create red blood cells could lead to opportunities for artificial blood to ...

Researchers found that short-term intensive fasting enhances the immune function of red blood cells, including their ability to combat SARS-CoV-2, without affecting their oxygen-carrying capacity.

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team is receiving $5.4 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technologies for transporting drug molecules in red blood cells.

A research team has discovered a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism modification. It has been known how immediate erythroid ...

NAINR. 2004;4(4):231-239. Acanthocyte Erythrocyte identified by numerous spiny cytoplasmic projections; similar to a Burr cell Acanthocytosis, condition in which the majority of erythrocytes are ...

A high red blood cell count can occur for many reasons, including excessive production of cells, changes in blood volume, or underlying medical conditions. Learn more here.

Schematic of RBC lysis and Endo-seal formation on dying endothelium. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09076-x ...

Normal levels of RBCs at birth range from 5.1 to 5.3 million/mm 3 for term newborns and 4.6 to 5.3 million/mm 3 for premature neonates. [] Nucleated red blood cells (NRBC) are immature ...