CD163 is a macrophage receptor that clears hemoglobin-haptoglobin complexes from blood, preventing oxidative damage and also ...

CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors ...

Researchers at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University are the first in the world to uncover the precise structure ...

Researchers have identified how haptoglobin and CD163 protect the body from oxidative damage from free hemoglobin by ...

The atomic structure of hemoglobin, determined by Max Perutz and colleagues 4, showed that this residue position is located on the surface of the protein. The mutation makes sickle cell hemoglobin ...

Makio Murayama, a Japanese-American biochemist who was turned away from the Manhattan Project due to his heritage, rose to prominence for his work uncovering the link between the structure of ...

How do mutations happen, and how do they influence the future of a species? Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood ...