A biomarker in red blood cells could alert patients with diabetes to heart damage before clear early symptoms appear.

Mouse red blood cells infected with the parasite Babesia microti acquired the ability to move, offering new insight into host-pathogen interactions.

It’s driven by red blood cells and not the blood clots traditionally associated with this sort of damage. “We’ve discovered a completely new blood-clotting mechanism that has nothing to do with the ...

Red blood cells, long thought to be passive bystanders in the formation of blood clots, actually play an active role in helping clots contract, according to a new study from researchers at the ...

Blood is far more than just a circulating fluid. It delivers oxygen from the lungs to every cell, removes carbon dioxide, ...

For half a century, a tiny quirk on the surface of red blood cells has puzzled doctors and put a small group of patients at risk during transfusions. That mystery has now been resolved with the ...