Iron is an essential mineral for red blood cell health. It helps transport oxygen throughout your body, supports connective tissue, and promotes muscle metabolism. Without enough iron, you might ...

A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the ... oxygen carriers to mimic red blood cells, bundle-removal mechanisms that ...

Ethical chicken nuggets might soon be on the menu as Japanese scientists have successfully produced more than 10 grams of cultured chicken muscle.

Red blood cells rely on glucose for energy and convert glucose to lactate. The brain uses glucose and ketone bodies for energy. Adipose tissue uses fatty acids and glucose for energy. The liver ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a blood test capable of detecting cancers, the ways cancer resists treatments ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround cancer cells in pancreatic tumors. The newly discovered cells counteract ...

Red blood cells don’t preserve ... bone-building cells and connective tissue in another T. rex, in a theropod from Argentina and in a 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil.