Red blood cells transport oxygen throughout your body, including to vital organs and tissues. They also help your body get rid of carbon dioxide. Too little or too many red blood cells may be ...

Within every cell (except red blood cells) is a nucleus -- a sphere-like structure separated from the rest of the cell by a membrane. The nucleus acts as the cell's control center, regulating its ...

Red blood cells are disc-shaped cells with no nucleus. They are very small but their flattened shape gives a relatively large surface area which allows rapid diffusion of oxygen.

We are taught that plasma membranes are a typical lipid bilayer, but how do we know this, and who figured it out? Aa Aa Aa Most books mention that membranes have a typical "lipid bilayer," but why ...

Researchers at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University are the first in the world to uncover the precise structure ...

When infections such as malaria take hold in the body, red blood cells can be severely affected and risk breaking ...

CD163 is a macrophage receptor that clears hemoglobin-haptoglobin complexes from blood, preventing oxidative damage and also ...

Red blood cells are disc-shaped cells with no nucleus. They are very small but their flattened shape gives a relatively large surface area which allows rapid diffusion of oxygen.