How red blood cells keep making hemoglobin under stress could reshape anemia treatment

Scientists have long been puzzled by how maturing red blood cells manage to produce all the hemoglobin they need to carry ...
Forbes

Lab-Grown Red Blood Cells May Soon Be Available For Safe Transfusions

Efforts to develop lab-grown blood cells for blood transfusions may soon materialize. Since 2021, the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has been working on RESTORE— a project ...
University of Delaware

Architecture of cells

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...
Science Daily

Differences in oxygen physiology in people with Down syndrome

A groundbreaking new study reports important differences in oxygen physiology and red blood cell function in individuals with Down syndrome. A groundbreaking new study published in Cell Reports by ...
Medical Xpress

Red blood cells soak up sugar at high altitude, protecting against diabetes

Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes than people living closer to sea level. But the mechanism of this protection ...