Polycythemia vera (PV) is a rare blood cancer that causes your body to make too many red blood cells. Extra cells may not sound like a problem, but they are. They thicken your blood, which means ...

In the February 27 issue, Professor Born rightly drew attention to the need to minimise waste in laboratories and cited as a specific example the destruction of scintillation vials after being ...

Contrary to what you likely learned in school, ferrying oxygen isn’t the only function of red blood cells. In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show ...

Red blood cells placed in a solution with the same water concentration as their cytoplasm (0.85 per cent salt solution) will not experience an overall change in volume. No osmosis occurs.

Polystyrene nanoparticles are widely used in packaging, but their effects on organisms are unclear. Very little was known about how they affect blood cell development until now. Red blood cells ...