"It feels like glass running through your veins." Faith Adjei-Sarpong lives with sickle cell disease and, like many others with this condition, depends on regular blood transfusions.

While research has uncovered many details about how blood cells function within bone marrow, the work of other cells existing in that space remained a relative mystery. Now, researchers from the ...

Sickle cell disease is often thought of solely as a blood disorder, but new research from the Wood Neuro Research Group provides measurable evidence that it can reshape how brain networks function.

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell ...

Myeloblasts are precursors to specific types of white blood cells that help your body fight infections. Too many myeloblasts may be a sign of a blood cancer like leukemia. Myeloblasts, or blast cells, ...

Your blood cells work tirelessly to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout your body and fighting off infections. But hidden in your daily meals are foods that can silently compromise these vital ...

After a long trail race, some of your red blood cells may not bend the way they should. That matters because red blood cells have a tight job description.

Here are five tests worth asking your doctor about at your next visit. The complete blood count, or CBC, measures red blood ...