Require immediate backup! Narrator: Your blood has different cells with different jobs. Some cells do repairs if you get a cut. Red blood cells deliver oxygen and take away rubbish. And your white ...

Rubius Therapeutics is biologically engineering red blood cells to provide a new class of off-the-shelf cellular therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Three of its product candidates ...

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 ...

the soft center where new blood cells grow. It causes your marrow to make too many red blood cells so your blood is too thick. You may be more likely to have clots, a stroke, or a heart attack.

They grew these cells in two environments: one containing erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that stimulates red blood cell production which is increased after each blood donation, and another ...

A high MCV means your red blood cells are larger than normal. A high MCV can be associated with a group of cancers called myelodysplastic syndromes. However, other causes of high MCV, such as ...