It is a special blood drive in honor of a special girl. Daniela Ciriello has a rare blood disease that requires frequent ...

Curious Kids: why is blood red? Published: May 14, 2024 11:48pm EDT. Theresa Larkin, University of Wollongong. Author ... Oxygen travels in blood to our cells in tubes called blood vessels.

An organ that stores red blood cells for emergencies. A new ‘storehouse’ function ascribed to the spleen, and reducing laboratory waste by reusing vials, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Anemia is a common condition in kids, affecting almost 5% of children aged 2–11 years in the U.S. Anemia occurs when a child doesn’t have enough red blood cells or hemoglobin (a type of ...

3d rendering red blood cells in vein. getty. Efforts to develop lab-grown blood cells for blood transfusions may soon materialize. Since 2021, the National Health Service (NHS) in the United ...

The procedure, known as therapeutic apheresis, filters blood through a specialized machine. It removes abnormal proteins, ...

That done, the harvested stem cells were grown and multiplied in a nutrient solution for between 18 and 21 days, which served to turn them into young versions of red blood cells known as ...

The blood type of B negative is also uncommon, occurring in "2% of Caucasian, 1% of African American, 0.4% of Asian and 1% of Latino American" populations, says the Red Cross.

Scientists have transfused lab-made red blood cells into a human volunteer in a world-first trial that experts say has major potential for people with hard-to-match blood types or conditions such ...

In January 2024, the American Red Cross declared an emergency blood shortage, reporting the lowest number of blood donations in 20 years. Estimating a 40% drop in donors over two decades, the Red ...

Q: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that ...

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...