The discovery that zinc contained in the hemoglobin of deep-sea tubeworms is used to bind and transport nutrients to symbiotic bacteria will be published online in the Proceedings of the National ...

Iron and oxygen work hand in hand to keep your body energized and alive. Iron forms the core of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen from your lungs to every cell. Understanding how your body ...

Scientists have discovered that "staph" bacteria prefer to bind to human hemoglobin -- the oxygen-carrying protein that contains iron -- over hemoglobin from other animals. The findings help explain ...

Your red blood cells are tiny couriers, carrying life-sustaining oxygen from your lungs to every cell and bringing back ...

Red blood cells (RBCs) are a type of blood cell whose role is to transport oxygen from the lungs to the peripheral tissues of the body. Oxygen diffuses from the alveoli of the lungs into the RBCs, ...