“…Red cell disorders affect more than a billion people worldwide and are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Most of these diseases including thalassemias, congenital dyserythropoietic anemias, MDS, polycythemia vera, as well as the widespread AoI arise or have significant contributing pathology in the final stages of erythropoiesis [14,15,16,17,18 ▪▪ ,28,46,47], when erythroblasts mature around the central Mϕ within EBIs and EMBIs [2,12 ▪▪ ]. AoI occurs in patients with chronic or acute immune activation, due to infectious, malignant, or autoimmune diseases, and affects the quality of life of millions of people worldwide [46].…”