Researchers from Emory University and Georgia Tech developed a smartphone app to screen for anemia using images of a person’s fingernail beds instead of the conventional blood test.

Artificial red blood cells, like the one shown here, could carry oxygen, therapeutic drugs and other cargo in the bloodstream. Scale bar, 2 μm. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Normal (left) and sickle cell (right) mouse red blood cells show the rigid, crescent-shaped "sickled" cells (arrows). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Your blood is made up of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma. White blood cells only make up about 1% of your blood, but they have an important function. As part of your ...

Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of conditions which affect the body’s ability to absorb glucose, due to a resistance to insulin or a lack of insulin production. This results in a high blood ...

Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and ... are then used to make detailed biomedical images of the molecules. The imaging tool ...