Feb. 25, 2025 — A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer ... Brains of People With ...

He had come to Florida to surprise his sister for her birthday. But instead, he had become so weak from sickle cell anemia that he had to be carried into a local hospital, then sent to another ...

Swedish scientists have reconstructed the face of a 400-year-old woman buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck due to people during her time thinking she was a vampire.

Hemoglobin is made up of four proteins organized around the iron-carrying heme group. These proteins are called globins, and each hemoglobin molecule has two alpha and two beta-globins.

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 ...

For 21 years, Sebastien Beauzile lived with the chronic pain of sickle cell anemia. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking genetic treatment, he is the first person in New York to be cured of the disease.

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder ... reduces oxidative damage to red blood cells; and improves iron absorption, which can be beneficial in individuals with SCD-related anemia.