Researchers have found a clear connection between the chronic pain experienced by some sickle cell disease patients and an imbalance in digestive tract bacteria. This discovery could eventually lead ...

Like most vertebrates, humans only have one heart, which is usually located near the front and middle of the chest, slightly ...

This extract here, from Chapter 10, Love Your Vulva, begins with the story of a 73-year-old woman who suffered in silence ...

In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

A comedic journey inside the human body with iam-dices! Explore the hilarious lives of red blood cells, brain cells, and the ongoing battle between good and bad bacteria.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nobel Prize-winning technology offers a potential cure for sickle cell disease. Simply put, doctors can edit a patient’s genes to alter blood cells. But this gene editing ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — As September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, the American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood. According to the CDC, sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in ...

From the moment they're born, newborns—or, specifically, their immune systems—must learn to fight germs without harming their ...

Cancer specialists have long known that anemia, caused by a lack of healthy red blood cells, can arise when cancer metastasizes to the bone, but it’s been unclear why. A research team led by Princeton ...

Making blood in the lab can be hard because scientists don’t know what triggers a key final step in red blood cell maturation ...