Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...
In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...
Unlike every other kind of cell in your body, healthy, mature red blood cells have no nucleus. The nucleus is ejected from the cells as they are formed, a process that makes it possible for them to ...