Red blood cells are essential for oxygen transport and immune function in the human body. When these cells become abnormally shaped, they can indicate serious health conditions, including diabetes, ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators say they have identified the structure of a special transporter found in red blood cells and how it interacts with drugs.

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Researchers at Tsinghua University have created a rapid, label-free method using polarized light detection to identify and ...

Combining lasers with a principle discovered by Alexander Graham Bell over 100 years ago, researchers have developed a new way to collect high-resolution information about the shape of red blood cells ...

Researchers at Northwell’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study red blood cell disorders, the health system ...

Nadia D. Ali, MD, is eager to attend the upcoming 2024 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, particularly for sessions on nonmalignant hematology, focusing on red blood cells, erythropoiesis, and ...

The amino acid glutamine plays an unexpected role in erythropoiesis, the differentiation of erythroid progenitor cells into mature red blood cells. Ordinarily, glutamine is broken down by stem cells ...