- Health
- By Laura Sinpetru
- November 25th, 2014
Sleeping Sickness Is an Actual Disease Caused by a Parasite, Can Be Deadly
The parasite sets up camp in a victim's bloodstream, affects the central nervous system and triggers a coma-like state
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 3rd, 2013
Iron in Fossils May Help with Recovering Ancient Tissues
The element could be making fossils harder to find at the same time
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- July 15th, 2013
Custom-Made Blue Blood Keeps Octopuses Alive in Sub-Zero Temperatures
Octopuses can survive in the freezing waters of the Antarctic, researchers explain why
- Nature
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 8th, 2013
Fish with Transparent Blood Goes on Display in Japan
The specimen has no hemoglobin and an unusually large heart, researchers say
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- July 26th, 2010
Moles' Adaptations to Living Underground
Their blood is a fascinating topic for research
- Behavior/Humans
- By Tudor Vieru
- June 8th, 2010
Tibetans Are Genetically Adapted to Their Country
So that they can survive its thin air
- Microbiology/Genetics
- By Tudor Vieru
- June 1st, 2010
Two RNA Molecules Keep Red Blood Cell Production Up
Two million of these cells are produced each second
- History
- By Tudor Vieru
- May 3rd, 2010
Mammoths' Hemoglobin Engineered in the Lab
Inside Escherichia coli bacterial cultures
- Microbiology/Genetics
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 29th, 2010
Diffraction Phase Microscopy Can 'See' Red Blood Cells Membranes
This helps researchers gain more insight into these structures
- Microbiology/Genetics
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 16th, 2010
Artificial-Blood Research Progresses
British scientists advance existing knowledge
- Microbiology/Genetics
- By Tudor Vieru
- August 24th, 2009
Fluorescent Red Blood Cells Created from Stem Cells
The stem cells only glow when they turn into RBCs
- Microbiology/Genetics
- By Stefan Anitei
- November 6th, 2007
Not Just Oxygen Transporter: Hemoglobin is also an Erection Booster!
It produces NO
- Sci Pry
- By Stefan Anitei
- June 8th, 2007
Why Are Human Feces Brown?
Due to degradation products of hemoglobin