It filters out bacteria, particularly a type of bacteria ... all people with sickle cell disease receive recommended vaccines. Some vaccines should be given on a different schedule.

Because of natural selection, different alleles are more likely ... found that nearly all were homozygous for the wild type of sickle cell allele. The few sickle cell carriers among them had ...

A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...

The disease is diagnosed through a sickle cell test called haemoglobin (HB) electrophoresis which measures different types of haemoglobins in red blood cells. Sickle cell is managed with ...

The launching of the Sentara-Eastern Virginia Medical School Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program in October gave adults ...

Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the ... in the mean levels of fetal hemoglobin (FH) in patients with different haplotypes. Individuals with the Arabian/Indian haplotype had an ...

A doctor uses a CBC to check the different types of blood cells in your body ... Conditions like sickle cell anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, and thalassemia are inherited.

The variety of gene expression profiles characteristic of different cell types arise because these cells have distinct sets of transcription regulators. Some of these regulators work to increase ...

The JOOTRH pediatric ward admits about 30 patients with different types of sickle cell crisis every week but the cost burden will be eased with the Novartis partnership. According to Dr Rae ...

The influential Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) in the US has issued draft guidance suggesting that new gene therapies for sickle cell disease (SCD) from Vertex Pharma and ...