Blood is arguably the most important bodily fluid and its analysis provides crucial health
status information. A first routine measure to narrow down diagnosis in clinical practice is the …

The primary function of the human red blood cells (RBCs) is to transport oxygen to all tissues
in the human body for the process of cellular respiration. To do this, RBCs often need to …

Plasmodium parasites need to find red blood cells (RBCs) that, on the one hand, expose
receptors for the pathogen ligands and, on the other hand, maintain the right geometry to …

Although malaria is the world's most life-threatening parasitic disease, there is no clear
understanding of how certain biophysical properties of infected cells change during the …

Plasmodium sp. are obligate intracellular parasites that derive most of their nutrients from
their host meaning the metabolic circuitry of both are intricately linked. We employed …

However, this is not the only function of these abundant enucleated cells, whose cytoplasm
is rich in hemoglobin and poor in organelles; they are also redoubtable sensors of oxygen …

We study the effect of different chemical moieties on the rigidity of red blood cells (RBCs)
induced by Plasmodium falciparum infection, and the bystander effect previously found. The …

In the last decade it has become clear that, similarly to nucleated cells, enucleated red blood
cells (RBCs) are susceptible to programmed apoptotic cell death. Erythrocytic apoptosis …

The Plasmodium falciparum parasite infected more than 240 million people and killed
around 600,000 patients last year alone. A key aspect of the pathophysiology of P …

Background In previous work studying the properties of red blood cells (RBCs) held in an
optical tweezers trap, we observed an increase in the spectrum of Brownian fluctuations for …