Contrary to what you likely learned in school, ferrying oxygen isn’t the only function of red blood cells. In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show ...

May 20, 2020 — In the bone marrow, blood stem cells via precursor cells give rise to a variety of blood cell types with various functions: white blood cells, red blood cells, or blood platelets ...

Rubius Therapeutics is biologically engineering red blood cells to provide a new class of off-the-shelf cellular therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Three of its product candidates ...

Red blood cells placed in a solution with the same water concentration as their cytoplasm (0.85 per cent salt solution) will not experience an overall change in volume. No osmosis occurs.