Your body's blood supply — red and white blood cells alike — is produced in bone marrow, a spongy tissue found in your bones, ensuring your body remains oxygenated and protected from disease. Because ...

From the Pathology Laboratories of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Read before the Boston Pathological Society, May 7, 1934. Van Ravenswaay, A. C. — Assistant in Medicine, Washington ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood condition. When you have it, your body has fewer red blood cells and less of a protein called hemoglobin than it should. Hemoglobin is important because it lets ...

Kidney cells can make memories too. At least, in a molecular sense. Neurons have historically been the cell most associated with memory. But far outside the brain, kidney cells can also store ...

Scientists have unveiled a new tool for studying the highly variable traits that allow malaria parasites to stick to red blood cells and evade the immune system. The ability of the human malaria ...

Iron plays an essential role in the human body, making a protein found in our red blood cells called haemoglobin. This protein allows our bodies to pick up oxygen from our lungs and transport it ...

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults. By Carl Zimmer Shortly after conception, a fertilized egg divides ...

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