title: A new red cell shape helps the clot.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Cines and colleagues discover that red blood cells take up an unusual, and hitherto undiscovered, shape that contributes to blood clotting.
authors.affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS.
authors.forename: Robert A S
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Ariëns
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001777:Blood Coagulation / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans