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In their quest for safe, mass-producible artificial blood, geneticists have long struggled. Our limited knowledge of genetic ...

Hemoglobin plays a critical role in keeping your body healthy, but many people underestimate its importance. Hemoglobin is a protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout the body, ...

A team led by scientists at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and ...

Leukemia is a blood cancer that disrupts normal cell production, leading to infection risk, anemia and bleeding, and requiring tailored treatments.