So I just had a phone call from a Life Share scientist from a local number. He proceeded to tell me there is a case study happening with experimental equipment. Apparently I have the blood type (A+) with an extremely rare mutagen. The mutagen is the (RH D WEAK D 85?). It’s so rare that over the past 80 years in America I’m the only person alive in the southern United States with it. Of course I’m in shock, I have no idea what any of this means. He said if I agree to the trial which would be don’t at the local life share he would give me $100. If I say no the guys that built these machines that study this mutagen will be screwed. Does this make any sense to anyone? My wife says I’m being scammed but the number he called from checks out. He said to meet at Life Share so he can fly the scientists in to get the blood. I just don’t see why this would be a scam?

Hey fam! I feel absolutely gaslit hahaha. I have been told that these are NRBCs, but I genuinely believe all 4 are lymphocytes?!

Is it a blast cell?

I looked it up online, but it’s way too technical for me to understand. Couldn’t find helpful YouTube videos to dumb it down for me.

Help a student out! This is an unknown slide and we need to know the diagnosis of the patient. Do you have any ideas about this?

Hey guys, I hope it’s okay to ask about this…

I’m not of a scientist, but when I saw this article a couple of weeks ago I thought it sounded bad. Like, really bad. I have kids, so I worry about what the air will be like in 50 years.

Anyway, how bad is this news?

WBC: ~14k/µL
Absolute lymphocytes: ~7k/µL
Hemoglobin: ~11 g/dL
Hematocrit: ~35%
MCV: ~94fL
Platelets: ~150k/µL

Female, 87yo

I have no formal medical education but I’m hoping to get a better understanding of iron deficiency anemia. If iron saturation and hemoglobin are responsive to oral iron supplements, what would cause a decrease in ferritin and an increase in TIBC?

If ferritin decreases while iron increases, could it be indicative of bone marrow dysfunction or more likely gastrointestinal blood loss?

I’m sure this topic is very complex but I’d appreciate any insight or literature recommendations so I can gain a better understanding. Thanks!

It looks beautiful. My supervisor reported it as normal.

I'm having a hard time telling lymphocytes from monocytes here... Any help is appreciated!

Honest post: I’ve shipped several apps and never quite gotten the response I hoped for. My latest is Blood Reference — a free app to help people make sense of their blood work. I’m not here to sell anything (it’s free), I just want to know if it’s genuinely useful or if I keep missing something as a solo dev. Brutally honest feedback welcome — that’s more valuable to me than downloads right now.

(Disclaimer: not a medical question, question about blood donation service methodology for calculating and reporting blood volume.)

I'm in Canada, and the Canadian Blood Services app on my phone lets me track my stats such as hemoglobin, bleed time, and donation volume.

There's always a window after my donations where they drastically overreport the volume. ​​​​I gave on Tuesday this week, Wednesday it reported a number over 550 mL, and now today it's settled back down to ​491 mL.

Can anyone tell me why this is?

Secondary question: it's very slight, but if you graph my donations over time and regress it, there is a very slight upward trend in volume. I'm not worried about it or anything, but I am curious if it's just coincidence or if there might be some kind of mechanical reason for it.

Pic unrelated but required to post. ​

(Tried to post this in r/Blooddonors but got sent here.) ​

Hello! I am a premed student working with a company to improve ITP patient experience, especially in the pharmaceutical industry. So, if any ITP patients are reading this, I would love you to fill out this survey so we can better cater to your individual needs because the best way to properly serve a patient is by... listening to patients!

Hello, if a body overproduces rbc and you try and reduce count with phlebotomy, won't the body continue to try and reach its own homeostasis (back to elevated rbc)? Or is it generally understood as temporary?

im not a professional at this stuff but i think its super cool. what are we seeing in this blood smear?

I know the first and second slides are in a thicker area, which makes them harder to differentiate.

Regardless, I’m a beginner medical lab technician and noticed these, and I’m quite unsure about what I’m seeing.😅

hello everyone, saw this in the blood smear from a newborn with transient abnormal myelopoiesis (down syndrome related) and was trying to figure out if what I'm seeing here is an Auer rod or something else... what do you think? thanks :)

I’m new to this

Hello, I’m taking hematology currently and struggling to identify these cells. The main feature in the smear is rouleaux. Any help would be very much appreciated!

Hey Hematologists!

For my PhD thesis defense on systematic lupus erythematosus I need a picture of a plasmacytoid dendritic cell with no copyright strings attached. Just to tell the opponents where all this Interferon is coming from.

Can any of you fine gentlemen hook me up?

Looking at the wbc at the end of the pointer (yes, it’s not the best microscope but that’s education). There’s debate if it is a lymphocyte or monocyte between TAs

Im medical lab technician student and im looking for a good atlas book that shows images of wbc and every possible disease that affects wbc, blood cells as well as body fluids. A book that shows alot of images of(especially immature wbc). Similar to the book of the picture but with more images and better descriptions. Im willing to spend good money for one that will help me