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Background Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection disproportionately affects people living with HIV, who are often excluded from functional cure studies. Objective This study investigates CD8+ T ...

Flowing red blood cells (RBCs) are imaged under the high-throughput QPM. The raw interferogram is processed to obtain the phase image of each individual RBC. The 3D information is analyzed to examine ...

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Blood doping boosts athletic performance by increasing the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream. Blood doping is commonly associated with endurance sports such as cycling, distance running, ...

Background: In human medicine, nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) in the peripheral blood have been associated with a poor prognosis and increased mortality in critically ill patients. In critically ...

For patients with a rare type of blood cancer, treatment might finally be coming out of the Dark Ages. People with the chronic condition polycythemia vera make too many red blood cells, thickening ...

A team led by the University of Sydney has identified red blood cell rupture at dying endothelial sites as a primary driver of microvascular obstruction in COVID-19, bypassing the expected role of ...