Researchers have identified a previously unknown biological process that causes tissue and organ damage in conditions where oxygen is low, such as heart attacks and strokes. The study suggests that ...

A team led by the University of Sydney has identified red blood cell rupture at dying endothelial sites as a primary driver ...

Then, roughly 10 years ago, Peter Agre, M.D., a Hopkins professor of biochemistry, stumbled upon an unknown protein lodged in the plasma membrane of red blood cells and kidney tubules. After ...

New research has revealed that red blood cells function as critical immune sensors by binding cell-free DNA, called nucleic acid, present in the body's circulation during sepsis and COVID-19 ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

We might be able to improve prevention and treatment.' While space travel sucks out red blood cells and weakens bone, all is not lost in microgravity. Fatty tissue inside your bones acts as a ...