For patients with heart failure, blood pumps can be lifesaving. But the very forces that sustain circulation can also harm it, damaging red blood cells through hemolysis and compromising the body's ...

A child who feels tired often, has repeated hospital visits, or unexplained pain may point to conditions like Sickle Cell ...

The way in which blood stem cells evolve over a lifespan differs greatly between humans and mice, new research reveals. The findings provide a new understanding of the critical factors that influence ...

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 ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

The FDA has delayed its target decision date for Orca Bio’s blood cancer cell therapy candidate Orca-T by three months to ...

The American Red Cross partnered with Northwestern Medicine to host the first community blood drive at the recently opened ...

Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according to a new study from researchers at the ...

Red blood cells normally cannot move on their own; they lack any of the cell structures needed for movement. Instead, they deliver oxygen throughout the body by going with the flow of blood. So, when ...