In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...
An SCD patient in Bahrain received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy, marking the first time the treatment has been given outside the U.S.
During terminal erythropoiesis, these cells incorporate large amounts of iron in order to generate hemoglobin and ultimately undergo ... transferrin receptor 2; SCD, sickle cell disease; ERFE, ...
The Medical University of South Carolina Health has established the Rena N. Grant Sickle Cell Center to help treat those ...
Simmie White is taking control of her own story. The six-year-old girl and her mother want others to understand more about ...
A SYSTEMATIC review by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) has found no evidence to support sickle cell trait (SCT) as a cause of acute pain crises or sudden exertion-related death. This finding ...
This makes it difficult for those with Sickle Cell Anemia, who are of African descent. “Many of those patients require up to 100 transfusions of blood every single year. It’s a very painful ...
The quality of life of patients with sickle cell anemia is severely compromised similar to or even worse than patients with other chronic diseases such as arthritis. Patients who responded to ...
Uganda records an estimated 20,000 sickle cell births annually, with many affected children dying before their fifth birthday. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans Uganda’s government has ...
Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...