Sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is the homozygous dominant variant and the most common and severe form of the disease. Whereas patients who only inherited one gene encoding for abnormal HbS and a different ...
From the Cleveland Clinic, Sickle Cell disease is when normal, round, flexible red blood cells are actually in crescent ...
WASHINGTON — Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S.
CLEVELAND — Sickle cell disease causes oxygen-carrying red blood cells to become sickle — or crescent — shaped, which slows or blocks blood flow. It leads to excruciating pain and devastating damage ...
Andrew Campbell, MD, is a distinguished leader in the field of sickle cell disease research and treatment. Currently serving as the director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Program at ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease, including the first therapy that uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR, opening a new era ...
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