In the light of these findings, the behavior of transgenic plants overexpressing ferritin with regard to iron and heavy-metal loading under various soil conditions should be addressed in future ...

Ferritin is a protein that stores iron for your body. Iron is a mineral needed to make hemoglobin—a protein in red blood ...

However, the new findings suggest that both groups should "change their approach to diagnosis ... be based on two markers of iron levels, hemoglobin and ferritin, not just hemoglobin alone.