Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape. This ...

The biological factory that produces reproductive cells has a robust quality control system to identify and eliminate eggs ...

The editor’s pick for this issue is a review article discussing the promise of hyperpolarised xenon MRI, a non-invasive ...

Spherocytosis is a red blood cell disorder that is usually inherited. It is a lifelong disease that causes red blood cells to be susceptible to excessive hemolysis (breakdown) due to a defect in the ...

This bias can be explained by ‘curvature coupling’ between the intrinsic curvature of the Piezo dome and the curvature of the red blood cell membrane. Piezo1 does not form clusters with itself, nor ...

Basement membranes (BMs) are complex macromolecular networks underlying all continuous layers of cells. Essential components include collagen IV and laminins, which are affected by human genetic ...