Researchers have discovered that a certain kind of protein similar to hemoglobin, called cytoglobin, plays an important role in the development of the heart. Specifically, it affects the correct ...

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 ...

In the human body, some of the most important stories are written at a molecular level, far from sight, yet deeply influ ...

A new study from North Carolina State University identifies vertebrate hemoglobin in bone extracts from two dinosaurs and shows that this molecule is original to those animals. The work also shows how ...

In Pakistan, about five to seven per cent of the population carries the thalassemia gene, while nearly 100,000 people are ...