A rare blood disorder, alpha thalassemia, affects thousands of people. About 5% to 20% of the world population carries one or ...

People are exposed to millions of fungal spores every day, even potentially harmful ones like those from Aspergillus ...

People are constantly exposed to fungal spores, including those of Aspergillus fumigatus, but individuals with weakened ...

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has announced an expansion of resources and educational outreach for Sickle Cell Awaren ...

Discover how doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children's were able to cure a patient born with sickle cell disease thanks to her ...

It sounds like science fiction. Scientists take ordinary skin or blood cells, rewind them to a stem-cell state, then reprogram them into a kind of youthful immune cell. They then inject these into an ...

New research suggests that your body parts start aging at different times, with some organs showing changes as early as 30.

New research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shows that a new class of drug results in cell death in cancers, such as small cell lung cancer, with a disabled quality control cell cycle checkpoint ...

"Harnessing nature to create powerful families of quantum sensors—that's the new direction here." The interdisciplinary advance is published in Nature. Unlike engineered nanomaterials, protein-qubits ...

A decline in deformability is a long-established phenomenon associated with aging red blood cells (RBCs), hampering oxygen delivery. Accurately quantifying this in a way that lab tests can use to ...

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (J.E.-A., G.P., N.M., V.T ...

Love Is Blind: UK season 2 star Patrick Justus, a 33-year-old human design coach, opened up about "following his spleen" in the series, leaving fans bewildered. In the first four episodes, which were ...