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Learn about the development of red blood cells from Embryonic stem cells. This blood cell is capable of carrying oxygen and delivering it to tissue correctly, in this medical report.

The hallmark of sickle cell disease -- misshapen red blood cells -- may be used to help fight cancerous tumors.

ER physician Dr. Travis Stork explains that sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder that affects the red blood cells.

A possible cure for a debilitating disease. It strikes one in 500 African Americans. Many live day-to-day on heavy painkillers. Now a new take on an old treatment may put an end to their suffering. Dr. Damiano Rondelli, University of Illinois Hospital Hematologist: ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered snow on Mars. Unlike snow on Earth, Martian snow is very small and made up of frozen carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, not water. The carbon dioxide snowflakes are about the size of a red bloo...

Amanda lists foods rich in beta-carotein, iron and other nutrients that will build red blood cells.

Sickle-cell disease is a disorder of the red blood cells.

Max Coppes, MD, PhD, tells us that research is being conducted at the Children's National Medical Center, with hopes of replacing abnormal red blood cells with healthy red blood cells to find a cure for Sickle Cell disease.

Learn about the Laparoscopic spleen removal surgery option. The Spleen is located behind the stomach and to the left of the liver. Specifically, the spleen picks out and destroys red blood cells that are no longer useful.