Despite being genetically identical, bacteria can vary considerably in shape and size. Whether these variations affect ...

Some doctors told him he'd live with the disease forever, but Khaled Alsheebani never stopped believing treatments would ...

Gene therapy has allowed a 21-year-old man from New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia ... which carries oxygen in red blood cells, to be sub-functional," said Forbes. It is most common ...

SO THERE ARE MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE ESTIMATED TO HAVE SICKLE CELL DISEASE IN THE U.S., THE RED CROSS SAYS FOSTERING A DIVERSE BLOOD SUPPLY IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO SUPPORTING THOSE PATIENTS.

Sickle cell is the most common genetic blood ... descent causes intense pain as it produces unusually shaped red blood cells that can block blood vessels which can be life-threatening.

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 blood ...

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.

“By supplementing glutamine, you’re providing the red blood cells with additional glutamine for various needs,” Xu explained. “This may explain why L-glutamine is beneficial for sickle ...

CRISPR Therapeutics' Casgevy, the first CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing therapy, shows promising results in treating Sickle Cell Disease ... that create misfolded red blood cells in the case of SCD ...

Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic blood disease in America and primarily affects the African American community. Wendy Tabron, American Red Cross-National Biomedical Partnership ...

As she recalls it, she had come to Ohio around 2008 for a conference on sickle cell disease because her laboratory was studying the misshapen red blood cells that define the ailment. Typically ...