Notably, sickle cell anemia was the first genetic disease ... year old college student who was severely anemic. A smear of this patient's blood showed that "the shape of the red cells was very ...

17, 2025 — A new study has found older-looking brains in adults with sickle cell disease ... a mechanism in which blood stem cells respond to acute, severe anemia, through lipoprotein metabolism ...

A new gene editing treatment has been approved for use in the NHS, which will help treat sickle cell disease patients ...

Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder characterised by the production of an abnormal haemoglobin, known as haemoglobin S. Sickle cell disease changes the shape of blood cells into a crescent ...

Sickle cell is a genetic blood disorder which turns healthy round blood cells a crescent moon – or sickle – shape. Symptoms include severe episodes of pain (known as a crisis), severe ...

(HealthDay News) — Adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and healthy controls with greater economic deprivation have older brain age, according to a study published online Jan. 17 in JAMA Network Open.

There will be a blood drive for sickle cell disease – the most common inherited blood disorder – this weekend in South Jersey ...

A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England. About 50 people a year with the inherited blood disorder are likely ...

was the first drug to reach the market that prevented sickle haemoglobin (HbS) polymerisation, the molecular basis of sickling and destruction of red blood cells in SCD. The product has been ...