This year, Roderick MacKinnon was recognized for working out the atomic structure of an ion channel and Peter Agre for discovering that a major protein found in red blood cells functions primarily as ...
Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets ...
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators say they have identified the structure of a special transporter found in red blood cells and how it interacts with drugs.