No osmosis occurs. Red blood cells placed in a solution with a higher water concentration compared to their contents (eg pure water) will gain water by osmosis, swell up and burst. Water will ...

Osmosis refers to the movement of water molecules only. The slideshow shows an example of osmosis showing the direction of movement of water between two different concentrations of sugar solutions ...

The challenge, Vivekanandan said, is that much of the current technology for identifying jaundice doesn’t do a good job recognizing the condition in babies with more melanin in their skin.