Wendy Tabron, American Red Cross -National Biomedical Partnership Officer, said the Red Cross needs blood every two minutes. ...

Red blood cells are the most abundant cells in the body. It has long been known that when red blood cells break down or anemia occurs due to bleeding, the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) increases, ...

The incidence of stroke continues to increase for adults and children living with sickle cell disease (SCD), despite the ...

Miracle Campbell, 6, wants to be a doctor when she grows up. Or a zookeeper for unicorns and baby monkeys. But first, she ...

It’s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.

For people with SCD, hemoglobin S (a mutated protein that transports oxygen) causes red blood cells to become curved ...

Dear Reader: When someone’s red blood cells become abnormally large, it is a condition known as macrocytosis. These enlarged ...

A research team has discovered a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism modification. It has been known how immediate erythroid precursors ...

In the meantime current gene therapies remain expensive and challenging to scale up because each patient’s batch of cells has ...

R esearchers looking into a 50-year-old mystery surrounding a rare missing antigen have discovered a new blood group system ...

Sickle cell trait (SCT) differs vastly from sickle cell disease. SCT is a genetic condition when someone inherits one sickle ...

You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?