Blood Red Cells & Iron provides an international forum for the publication of original articles describing basic laboratory, translational, and clinical investigations related to red blood cells. The journal welcomes original work relevant to hematological disease involving erythroid lineage with significant clinical and/or scientific impact. The submissions can include papers relevant to inherited and acquired anemias, nutritional anemias, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, malaria, immune-mediated anemias, and normal and ineffective erythropoiesis, including myelodysplasia.