When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen and warp into a sickle shape during periods of ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known about how they affect blood cell development until now.

Rubius Therapeutics is biologically engineering red blood cells to provide a new class of off-the-shelf cellular therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Three of its product candidates ...

Men who had given blood more than 100 times in their life were more likely to have blood cells carrying certain beneficial mutations, suggesting that donating blood promotes the growth of these cells ...