September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month, "a time to bring attention to the challenges faced by people living with sickle cell disease and the lifesaving role of blood donors in their care," ...

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 precursors ...

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

Cancer researchers focused on improving the success of cancer immunotherapies introduced a new tool in a Yale study published ...

Researchers have found the first direct evidence that tiny particles of air pollution stick to red blood cells, meaning they ...

A new study by the University of California, Davis, shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar.

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell ...

Dear Doctors: My husband is having an elective surgery soon. It requires full anesthesia, so he has had a lot of pre-op tests. One of the blood tests showed that his red blood cells are too big. The ...

Researchers have found the first direct evidence that tiny particles of air pollution stick to our red blood cells, meaning they can travel freely around the body. These particles are produced by ...