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 ...

These sickle-shaped cells can block blood flow, causing pain and potential complications. Symptoms of SCD can vary from person to person. Some of them include, anemia, swelling, vision problems ...

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 ...

a hereditary blood disorder. Ten years later, Townes, chair of the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, was involved in another first—with his own animal models as the crucial ...

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.

A campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the urgent need for more black blood donors. It comes as the number of sickle cell anaemia sufferers from the black community has risen.

Jimi Olaghere thought he would have to wait decades to be freed from his sickle cell disease - but now scientists have engineered his blood to overcome the disease which left him in constant pain.

More than 100,000 people in the United States — 9 in 10 of them Black — have sickle cell disease. The inherited illness causes red blood cells, usually round, to contort into a crescent ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia, present with a wide variety ... genes and the possibility that hydroxyurea or blood pressure control reduce neurological ...

South London is honouring a pioneer in sickle cell work at a new blood donation centre. The centre in Brixton and has been designed in collaboration with residents, community leaders and local ...