aDepartment of Health Metric Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA bDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington ...

Although studies have highlighted some connections between climate change, transfusion-transmissible infections, and blood safety, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of the climate ...

Normal human red blood cells have an average life span of about 120 days in the circulation after which they are engulfed by macrophages. This is an extremely efficient process as macrophages ...