Red blood cells may hold the secret to fighting diabetes—by soaking up sugar when oxygen runs low. People who live high in the mountains have long been observed to develop diabetes less often than ...

Scientists have long known that people living at high altitudes, where oxygen levels are low, have lower rates of diabetes ...

Share on Pinterest Could lab-grown blood fill an important gap in blood availability? Image credit: Frank Molter/picture alliance via Getty Images. Blood plays a vital role in the health of the body, ...

In a 2023 paper on hypoxia and glucose metabolism, our lab showed how organisms rewire their metabolism to adapt to low ...

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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 ...

A biomarker in red blood cells could alert patients with diabetes to heart damage before clear early symptoms appear.

February 2026 marks 100 years of commemorating Black history, and this month, Black blood donors can continue to make history by strengthening community health and rolling up a sleeve to give blood.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Currently, to treat conditions such as leukaemia, damaged blood cells need to be replaced in a stem cell transplant. But ...