A recent mouse study suggests that low-oxygen conditions, such as being at high altitudes, could cause red blood cells to ...

A recent study delves into the science, but doctors say there’s more to it.

Running extreme distances may strain more than just muscles and joints. New research suggests ultramarathons can alter red blood cells in ways that make them less flexible and more prone to breakdown, ...

But there are so many different ways to get your blood pumping, and not all of them have the same impact on your body. Now, scientists say that a specific type of intense exercise, long-distance trail ...

Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes than people living closer to sea level. But the mechanism of this protection ...

The NHS has shared several symptoms of iron deficiency anaemia, with one that may show up in the leg. Iron plays a vital role ...

Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This test could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well ...

A research team has discovered a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism modification. It has been known how immediate erythroid precursors ...

Millions of people donate blood each year, saving countless lives. After a donation, plasma and white blood cells are separated from red blood cells, which are the most commonly transfused blood ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...