Sickle Cell Disease is a chronic, inherited blood disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. It is best known for ...

The characteristic anemia that comes with this disease can be attributed to how quickly the compromised red blood cells die. While regular blood cells get replaced every 120 days, sickled blood cells ...

Sickle cell disease has beena well-established risk factor for stroke. In the disease, crescent-shaped or "sickled" red blood cells are less able to carry oxygen to the body's tissues and organs.

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.

Useful in establishing the differential diagnosis of anemia, calculated by automated blood profiling machine from RBC count, hematocrit and hemoglobin Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) Expresses ...

MADISON - The American Red Cross is urging residents to schedule blood donations in May before summer schedules get too full of vacations, summer sports activities and other events. There are ...

Members of the Blood Tribe gathered in Stand Off to walk and speak up on Red Dress Day for those who can no longer do the same. “Coming together collectively in spirit, in ceremony, is integral ...

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...

Columnist Mary Shaniqua offers suggestions and encouragement to parents whose child has just been diagnosed with sickle cell ...

Apr. 25, 2025 — Chimpanzee naive pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can now be grown in cellular cultures, reveals a recent study. They successfully created chimpanzee early embryo models ...

It uses CRISPR/Cas9 to make a patient’s haematopoietic stem cells produce high levels of foetal haemoglobin (HbF) in red blood cells, by introducing a gene known as BCL11A which down-regulates ...