The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

Scientists have been working on the artificial production of blood for several decades. Now, researchers from the University of Konstanz and Queen Mary University of London have taken an important ...

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

A team led by the University of Sydney has identified red blood cell rupture at dying endothelial sites as a primary driver of microvascular obstruction in COVID-19, bypassing the expected role of ...

Scientists have uncovered a new biological mechanism behind tissue and organ damage in low-oxygen conditions like heart attacks, strokes, and severe COVID-19. Bursting red blood cells—not ...

Scientists believe dinosaur fossils could hold the key to new cancer discoveries and influence future treatments for humans.A decade-long study published in the journal Biology by researchers from ...

Learn more about red blood cells, transporters of oxygen throughout your body, including vital organs and tissues.

The MCHC blood test measures the concentration of hemoglobin in red blood cells, helping diagnose anemia and other blood disorders.

UK scientists have begun the first clinical trial of lab-grown red blood cells, with the hope that they survive longer in volunteers than donated blood cells.

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, ...

Recent peer-reviewed study supports what patients shared with their own voices: Automated red blood cell exchange improves the lives of people struggling with sickle cell disease LAKEWOOD, Colo., Nov.

Glutamine metabolic switch is key to red blood cell development and disease.