| The patient subsequently received platelet and red blood cell transfusions. |
| Many people know that stem cells can grow into virtually any cell type found in the body, from a red blood cell to a muscle cell to a brain cell. |
| The deformation of the human erythrocyte or red blood cell has been the topic of detailed investigation for many decades. |
| The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell. |
| Iron is a key part of hemoglobin, which is the part of the red blood cell that carries oxygen from the lungs out to the rest of the body. |
| It also deforms the shape of the red blood cell enough that it's destroyed by the body, thus the anemia. |
