In a new study, researchers found that the inflammation behind painful episodes in sickle cell disease are correlated with ...

The disease is diagnosed through a sickle cell test called haemoglobin (HB) electrophoresis which measures different types of haemoglobins in red blood cells. Sickle cell is managed with ...

Because of natural selection, different alleles are more likely ... found that nearly all were homozygous for the wild type of sickle cell allele. The few sickle cell carriers among them had ...

Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the ... in the mean levels of fetal hemoglobin (FH) in patients with different haplotypes. Individuals with the Arabian/Indian haplotype had an ...

(KOLN) - Groundbreaking advancements in Sickle ... to bring a different therapy that uses a DNA-editing bacteria technology called CRISPR. “We take the patients’ stem cells, we give them ...

The variety of gene expression profiles characteristic of different cell types arise because these cells have distinct sets of transcription regulators. Some of these regulators work to increase ...

Costs could be different based on: treatment types your overall health the costs ... cancers and other blood conditions, such as sickle cell disease. Like many other cancer treatments, stem ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell ... called HbAT87Q (a modified type of normal HbA).” T87Q is a special type of hemoglobin A that is slightly different from regular ...

The influential Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) in the US has issued draft guidance suggesting that new gene therapies for sickle cell disease (SCD) from Vertex Pharma and ...