Makio Murayama, a Japanese-American biochemist who was turned away from the Manhattan Project due to his heritage, rose to prominence for his work uncovering the link between the structure of ...

Our ability to breathe oxygen is critical to our survival. This process is mediated by the hemoglobin in our blood, which carries oxygen. Since air contains less oxygen on high mountains, the body is ...

Researchers have found a new way to reactivate fetal hemoglobin without the need for gene-editing therapy, according to a new ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Physicists from Switzerland, Japan and Germany have unveiled the mechanism by which the first event of respiration takes place in heme proteins. Respiration is a fundamental process of all living ...

Identifying a small-molecule drug that can effectively treat (or potentially cure) patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) around the world is something of a Holy Grail in hematology research and drug ...