Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have found that being a carrier for sickle cell disease, known as having sickle cell trait, increases the risk of blood clots, a risk that is the same among diverse ...

September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...

When asked to picture the ideal cure for sickle-cell disease, molecular biologist Stefano Rivella, a researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Pennsylvania, didn’t gaze into ...

The UAB Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center brings together scholars and researchers working in the forefront of basic, translational and clinical research, with the overarching goals to discover new ...

The Food and Drug Administration in December approved two breakthrough gene therapies for sickle-cell disease ... The laws, ...

Tracy Katusiime, 22, a teacher from Wakiso District was born with sickle cell disorder. She says she takes at least two different types of medicines every day to manage the condition.

What if hemoglobins clumped together? This is what happens in sickle cell disease. Sickle cell arises from a single point mutation in the human genome. That means that one DNA base pair in the HBB ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Twenty-five years ...

Sarah-Jane has sickle-cell disease, lives with constant pain and needs a blood transfusion every six weeks The first new sickle-cell treatment in 20 years will help keep thousands of people out of ...

Please verify your email address. Crafted as a gift from Lady McIntosh to her most lucrative trade partners, this sickle was purely decorative. Regardless, its impeccable design makes it a truly ...

It was meant to mark the first day of his new life — the day he became one of the first children ever to be treated with a newly approved gene therapy that will free him from the sickle cell ...

The Sickle of BOOOAL is a Rare quality melee weapon in Baldur’s Gate 3 that comes with a special enchantment known as BOOOAL’s Benediction. The enchantment grants the user Advantage on Attack ...