Scientists have discovered that carbon monoxide (CO) separates from hemoglobin through at least two distinct steps, overturning the long-held belief that this process occurs in a single event. The ...

Hemoglobin could hold the key to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. The protein found in red blood cells that transports oxygen in the body could play a potentially game-changing—and ...

Did you know the same protein that gives blood its red color and carries oxygen throughout the body is also present inside brain cells? Hemoglobin, long celebrated for ferrying oxygen in red blood ...

Hemoglobin, long celebrated for ferrying oxygen in red blood cells, has now been revealed to play an overlooked—and potentially game-changing—antioxidant role in the brain. "The key was to uncover ...

In neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s, healthy brain cells are damaged by aberrant reactive oxygen species (ROS). A potential ...

In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS, excessive H2O2 from reactive astrocytes triggers a vicious cycle of oxidative stress, protein aggregation, and neuronal loss.

All three doses of orforglipron superior to placebo with respect to primary end point of change in HbA1c from baseline to week 40. (HealthDay News) — The oral small-molecule glucagon-like peptide-1 ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Sickle-cell anemia is a hereditary, disabling disease that remains a public health concern in many countries, with the prevalence of sickle-cell trait in Africa ranging from 10 ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine report that a rare gene mutation that delays Alzheimer’s disease does so by damping inflammatory signaling in brain-resident immune cells in a preclinical study.

Beam Therapeutics announced positive updates on its BEAM-101 treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD) from the BEACON Phase 1/2 clinical trial, with results presented at the European Hematology ...

1 School of Medicine, ShaoXing University, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China 2 Department of Cardiology, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China Once considered passive carriers of ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, takes a look at visible signs of iron deficiency. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): ...