Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells. It carries oxygen around your body, delivering it to tissues. Hemoglobin also carries carbon dioxide to the lungs so you can breathe it out. Iron is a part ...

The A1C test can also be used to diagnose gestational diabetes in the first trimester.

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Low levels of hemoglobin may be a sign of an underlying health condition, such as anemia or cancer. Some dietary measures and supplements may help boost hemoglobin levels at home. Hemoglobin is an ...

Webbed feet, flipper-like wings and unique feathers all helped penguins adapt to life underwater. But by resurrecting two ancient versions of hemoglobin, a research team has shown that the evolution ...

Abnormal hemoglobin levels — both low and high — are associated with an increased risk of developing subsequent dementia, new research shows. The latest results from the Rotterdam Study — a large, ...

Although the deleterious vasoconstrictive effects of cell-free, hemoglobin-based blood substitutes have been appreciated, the systemic effects of chronic hemolysis on nitric oxide bioavailability have ...

Beam Therapeutics has presented the first clinical data on its base editing technology. All four sickle cell disease patients in the efficacy cohort had fetal hemoglobin levels above Beam’s target—and ...