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Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

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A team led by the University of Sydney has identified red blood cell rupture at dying endothelial sites as a primary driver of microvascular obstruction in COVID-19, bypassing the expected role of ...

Potentially deadly blood clots can be spotted before they strike - thanks to AI technology. Japanese scientists have found a way to observe clotting activity in blood as it happens, without ...

Learn more about red blood cells, transporters of oxygen throughout your body, including vital organs and tissues.

Under a microscope, we compared them with real red blood cells; ironically, the natural ones were so identically perfect that they appeared to have been manufactured, whereas the lab-grown cells ...

In this work, we show how shape matters for the ordering of red blood cells (RBCs) at a water–air interface for both artificially rigidified and sphered cells as a model system for hereditary ...

The conventional method for detecting anemia involves Complete Blood Count (CBC), which demands specialized hematology analyzers and substantial time. In response to these constraints, the Hemocount, ...