What do healthy bone marrow cells in children look like? For the first time, researchers have mapped this out. Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center examined nearly 91,000 individual bone marrow ...

Extreme endurance running damages red blood cells in ways that may affect their ability to function properly, according to a ...

Ultramarathons might push red blood cells past their limits—accelerating their aging in the process.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have uncovered how chronic inflammation disrupts the immune ...

BOWLING GREEN, KY.- According to the CDC, about 90,000 non-Hispanic Black or African American people in the United States have sickle cell disease. Outside the U.S., the condition is more common in ...

Mouse red blood cells infected with the parasite Babesia microti acquired the ability to move, offering new insight into host-pathogen interactions.

Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...

Your blood cells work tirelessly to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout your body and fighting off infections. But hidden in your daily meals are foods that can silently compromise these vital ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is set to receive a pair of grants totaling over $1.3 million dollars for research into ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — WNCT’s Erin Jenkins sits down with a sickle cell disease survivor and a doctor to learn more about ...