The disease gets its name because when you have SCD, your red blood cells look like a sickle, which is a C-shaped ... an immune feature used by microbes to help ward off viruses or other invaders.

The shape of sickle cell blood cells resembles a curved blade knife called a sickle. These cells are stiff and inflexible, so they cannot move through small blood vessels as easily as healthy red ...

You’re adjusting to life with your sweet newborn, and you receive scary news: Your baby has sickle cell disease, a group of inherited red ... bacteria that cause infections in the blood.” ...

The most severe form of sickle cell disease, sickle cell anemia causes red ... the blood and oxygen flow to the lungs. It can also be the result of an infection with a virus or bacteria.

Sickle cell disease affects how your body makes red blood cells ... an organ that helps your body filter bacteria out of your blood. Antibiotics can treat infections, but it’s important to ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes ...

For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working to cure patients ...

The clumps make red blood cells rigid and change their shape from flexible doughnuts into inflexible sickles – hence the name of the disease. Rigid sickle cells cannot travel through narrow ...

However, further research is still needed to understand the exact effects. Sickle cell disease causes red blood cells to change shape and become inflexible. These “sickled” cells can stick to ...

“For individuals with sickle cell, what we found is that you need to match for more than (blood types A, B, O, and AB). So there are other things sticking out on the red cell surface with names ...