The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival ...

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...

Joint injury induces rapid and sustained diversification of resident and infiltrating synovial macrophage phenotypes, underpinning osteoarthritis-associated synovitis.

By targeting surface markers on cancer cells, engineered synthetic receptors expressed on immune cells can be directed to ...

Mass cytometry by time-of-flight (CyTOF) is a newly developed technology that can profile the composition and number of immune cells.25–27 To test the value of peripheral blood immune cells in tumour ...

Red blood cells (RBC) can be present in urine even when ... The clean catch method involves starting the flow of urine and placing the collection cup into the flow midstream.

Previous studies have shown they may interact with our hormones, or enter our cells ... narrow blood vessels, called capillaries, which could cause prolonged obstructions to blood flow in the ...

Here’s how it works. When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual ...

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the Pentagon's top research arm, wants to find out if red blood cells could be modified in novel ways to protect troops and help them manage extreme ...