#erythrocytes

[rowanthecreature]

Work in progress :3

[humancelltournament]

Human Cell Tournament Round 3

Which cell or cell component is better?

Adenosine triphosphate

Erythrocytes

Voting ended onMar 31

Propaganda!

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleoside triphosphate that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis. Found in all known forms of life, it is often referred to as the "molecular unit of currency" for intracellular energy transfer. When consumed in a metabolic process, ATP converts either to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) or to adenosine monophosphate (AMP). Other processes regenerate ATP. It is also a precursor to DNA and RNA, and is used as a coenzyme. An average human adult processes around 50 kilograms daily.

Erythrocytes (red blood cells), also referred to as red cells, red blood corpuscles (in humans or other animals not having nucleus in red blood cells), haematids, or erythroid cells, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system. Erythrocytes take up oxygen in the lungs, or in fish the gills, and release it into tissues while squeezing through the body's capillaries.

[isthisahearmeout]

Is the red blood cell (AE3803) from Cells! At Work a hear me out?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 1, 2025

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[bpod-bpod]

Blown-up in Blood

An atlas of development of the malaria parasite as it proliferates in its blood cell stage generated using expansion microscopy – a means of physically inflating tissue to enhance the microscopic view

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Benjamin Liffner and Ana Karla Cepeda Diaz, and colleagues

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, December 2023

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[onlymollygibson]

what part of human blood do vampires need? Red blood cells? Just the hemoglobin? Is it any part of blood? Do lymphocytes count? Could they fish around in the biohazard container at the hospital for a snack and be fine with that? Could we make a vampire version of beyond burgers in the lab?

[microscope-world]

These are Erythrhocytes (red blood cells) captured under a hematology microscope. You can learn more about hematology and blood cell types here.

[pugsdonotdodrugs]

Billy Eilish's brother , who looks like a red blood cell.

[hoshikarin]

A 90-year old British lady just received the first Pfizer-BioNTech dose! Godspeed. I thought this Cells at Work! befit the special occasion :D Let’s bea the ‘rona!