Going with the flow: artist's impression of red blood cells flowing through a blood vessel. (Courtesy: iStockphoto.com/spanteldotru) The shape of red blood cells ...

Using a computational approach known as deep learning, scientists have developed a new system to classify the shapes of red blood cells in a patient's blood. The findings, published in PLOS ...

Researchers report that a protein called myosin IIA contracts to give red blood cells their distinctive shape. The findings could shed light on sickle cell diseases and other disorders where red blood ...

(Phys.org) —The universe we can see is made up of billions of galaxies, each containing anywhere from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of stars. Large numbers of galaxies are elliptical ...