hemoglobin

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At one point since the crash, Vonn said, she received a blood transfusion to raise her hemoglobin levels.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

HypoxyStat is taken as a pill and works by causing hemoglobin in red blood cells to bind oxygen more tightly, limiting the amount delivered to tissues.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2026

Its sensors can determine hydration levels based on the color of urine, the consistency of stool and the presence of hemoglobin, a protein found in blood cells.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

The thing that carries oxygen in blood is a molecule called hemoglobin.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2025

Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee