People go to great lengths to maintain youthful-looking skin with masks, creams and serums. Now, researchers have discovered ...

A small but mighty microbe that can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from ...

Objective To examine the performance of the new 2022 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR giant cell arteritis (GCA) classification criteria for diagnosis in routine clinical care. Methods ...

Normal human red blood cells have an average life span of about 120 days in the circulation after which they are engulfed by macrophages. This is an extremely efficient process as macrophages ...

Our body needs water to perform its essential functions and keep us strong. For those with sickle cells, this could not be more true. In general, when we are dehydrated our blood becomes thicker. This ...

Scientists are making new discoveries every day, but many of them fall under the radar. Some of these findings are ...

However, toxicological information on their effects on red blood cells (RBCs) and the mechanisms involved remain sparse. In this article, we examined the size dependent nanotoxicity of AgNPs using ...

Abstract: The human body is a microbe?s playground: interspersed among the 37 trillion cells of the human body [1] are at least ten times as many bacteria, fungi, viruses, and archaea. That amounts to ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a series of genetic blood abnormalities. Due to hemoglobin damage, your red blood cells (RBCs) lose their adaptable donut shape and adopt a "C" shape. These cells become ...

SO THERE ARE MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE ESTIMATED TO HAVE SICKLE CELL DISEASE IN THE U.S., THE RED CROSS SAYS FOSTERING A DIVERSE BLOOD SUPPLY IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO SUPPORTING THOSE PATIENTS.

Quite often, blood cancer patients require the replacement of their blood stem cells in the bone marrow, the tissue producing blood cells where their cancer grows. Unfortunately, finding a ...