Many health conditions can cause changes in your RBC levels. (Credit: Getty Images) A red blood cell count test measures how many red blood cells (RBCs) are in your blood. The red blood cells ...

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.

Some types of anemia can hinder or even stop blood cell production in the bone marrow. Bone marrow is a spongy tissue inside the bones that produces stem cells. These stem cells are red 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 ...

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 ...

"I wanted to get some photos of a pretty glassfrog belly ... frog's circulatory system through its translucent skin — "red with red blood cells." But when he came back later, the frogs were ...