Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...

Cells in the lungs and blood vessels contain an abundance of ACE2 receptors, which the virus infiltrates using a spike protein on its outer membrane. These receptors are the virus's main entryway ...

In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade fever and, most ...

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 ...

More information: Takato Takenouchi et al, Establishment and characterization of an immortalized red river hog blood-derived macrophage cell line, Frontiers in Immunology (2024). DOI: 10.3389 ...

The white blood cells fight infection, red blood cells carry oxygen ... is the collection of all the microbes that live on and inside your body. They include viruses, bacteria, and other ...

The same oligosaccharides on red blood cells also appear on the surface of cells that line the small intestine. Norovirus and a few other viruses use these oligosaccharides to grab onto and infect ...