Today, despite the detailed molecular explanation of the cause, sickle cell anemia is still a serious clinical problem. Herrick, J.B. Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a ...

doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time. After 50 years, this strange molecular absence finally led researchers from ...

Rubius Therapeutics is biologically engineering red blood cells to provide a new class ... specific antigen as well as a co-stimulatory molecule and cytokine on the RCT. For the treatment of ...

CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new mechanism behind blood vessel damage in type 2 diabetes. The study ...

Contrary to what you likely learned in school, ferrying oxygen isn’t the only function of red blood cells. In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show ...

Identifying the JAK2V617F mutation has improved understanding of what causes overproduction of red blood cells, platelets, ...

T reatment with a molecule known as A485 can quickly and temporarily increase levels of white blood cells, a critical part of the body's immune system, an effect that is difficult to deliver with ...