Sickle cell anaemia is a genetic blood disorder characterised by the production of an abnormal haemoglobin, known as ...

On this map, the distribution of sickle-cell anemia haplotypes among nations with high prevalence of the disease are shown. Five distinct beta-globin haplotypes (indicated by colors) are found in ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks ...

One of the reasons of anemia can be Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA)—a genetic blood disorder where the body produces red blood cells that are abnormally shaped.” Also read | Sickle cell disease ...

In 2007, teams from UAB and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported the first successful treatment of sickle cell anemia in experimental animals using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and healthy controls with greater economic deprivation have older brain age.