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.

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 ...

and circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA, which can signify severe disease, such as sepsis or pneumonia. This pathogen-sensing role comes at a cost, however: red blood cells (RBCs) that cart around ...

The announcement is a landmark in the treatment of sickle cell disease, a devastating condition in which red blood cells deform ... 28 (88 percent) were free of vaso-occlusive events for between ...