Healthy red blood cells are puffy with a dimpled middle. “It’s just a really cool shape,” says Velia Fowler, a cell biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. For decades, researchers ...

Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MD The red cell distribution width (RDW) blood test measures differences in the volume ...

A smear of this patient's blood showed that "the shape of the red cells was very irregular, but what especially attracted attention was the large number of thin, elongated, sickle-shaped and ...

Anisopoikilocytosis is when you have red blood cells that are of different sizes and shapes. It has several possible causes. Results from a blood smear can also find mild anisopoikilocytosis.

Sickle cell disease (SCD), the most common inherited blood disorder, affects millions worldwide. In the United States alone, it impacts over 100,000 individuals, predominantly African Americans.

We have studied how cell architecture contributes to normal cell functions or dysfunction in disease for red blood cell shape and deformability, skeletal and cardiac muscle contraction, endothelial ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...