Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...

For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. What no one could work ...

Velia Fowler (standing), chair of the Department of Biological Sciences and pioneering researcher in the architecture of cells, examines F-actin and other proteins in the structure of red blood cells ...

WASHINGTON, 10th July, 2026 (WAM) – A new discovery overturns a decades-old assumption about how malaria parasites get into ...

As people age, so do their stem cells. Scientists have known for years that the stem cells that go on to become blood cells ...