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.

Sickle Cell Disease is an awful genetic disease that disproportionally affects black people. It's caused by a single-point mutation in DNA, which results in a modified hemoglobin protein, differing by ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye, a doctor, sorts through the difference between sickle cell anemia and sickle cell disease — and more.

Sickle-cell disease (SCD), or sickle-cell anaemia (or anemia, SCA) ... The sickling occurs because of a mutation in the hemoglobin gene. Life expectancy is shortened. In 1994, ...

The vulnerability to severe infections is another critical challenge. The spleen, an organ vital for filtering bacteria from the blood, often becomes dysfunctional due to damage from sickle cells.

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

Sickle cell anemia is what Tenesha Dudley of Rocky Mount calls an invisible illness. ... In sickle cell disease, red blood cells become crescent or “sickle-shaped” due to a gene mutation.

THE fundamental defect of sickle-cell disease is a mutation that leads to substitution of a valine for a glutamic acid residue in the beta chains of hemoglobin.1 When red cells containing the chemi ...

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder caused by a single mutation in both copies of a gene coding for beta-globin. Beta-globin forms half of the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin.

The first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease has been approved in the U.K. , a move ... In people with thalassemia, the genetic mutation can cause severe anemia.

Sickle cell anemia patient reunites with Long Island doctors whose gene therapy treatments made him ... Sickle cell disease is a group of conditions that affect a person’s red blood ...