A federally funded Johns Hopkins team finds the virus ‘reprograms’ neutrophils to impair production of immune cells critical ...

The announcement, reported in the Telegraph, comes after red blood cells grown in a lab from stem cells were transferred to a patient in a world-first clinical trial in 2022 led by NHS Blood and ...

The changes appeared to boost the cells’ ability to regenerate new red blood cells under stressful conditions mimicking blood loss, for instance. They didn’t grow in conditions mimicking ...

One has been the move beyond simple transfusion to red blood cell exchanges (RBCX). If a patient receives too many transfusions, there is risk for a complication known as iron overload.

The reason for this secrecy was that Green was one of thirteen participants in the first clinical trial to transfuse lab-grown red blood cells into humans. RESTORE, as the N.H.S.B.T.-funded trial ...

Millions of parents have paid to bank blood from their infants’ umbilical cords. But storage companies have misled them about the cells’ promise. By Sarah Kliff Pregnant women are bombarded ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs around the body. They then carry carbon dioxide from around the body back to the lungs. These cells are an important component of blood. However ...

The treatment, called exa-cel and made by the companies Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics, edits a gene involved in red blood cell shape and function. It appears to functionally cure the disease for ...

Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. White blood cells, also known as leukocytes, help the immune system function properly by fighting infections and protecting against ...