Hemoglobin has played a central role in the understanding of many biochemical and biophysical principles, as Eaton and colleagues point out on page 351 of this issue of Nature Structural Biology.

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely ... tells the body how to make a form of hemoglobin (Hb), the oxygen-carrying ...

Research from UAB published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February 2022 suggests a gene therapy called LentiGlobin could provide a drastic improvement in quality of life for people with ...

In children with sickle cell disease, hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) should be measured at presentation with arterial ischemic stroke (D). Urgent exchange transfusion should be ...

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

The blood test to confirm disease or trait is called haemoglobin electrophoresis. Sickle cell trait is protective ... as elite athletes with normal hemoglobin AA, and must together with their ...

Aruvant is developing ARU-1801, a one-time, potentially curative gene therapy for sickle cell ... in disease burden. Patients have shown stable levels of anti-sickling fetal hemoglobin levels ...

It's not contagious like a virus. People with sickle cell disease carry two genes from both parents of altered hemoglobin, a protein that allows red blood cells to carry oxygen to all parts of the ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Sickle Cell Anemia develops when the body produces an abnormal form of the protein (hemoglobin) in the blood that carries oxygen. SCD is a ...

Children with sickle cell disease, a chronic hemolytic anemia ... High white cell count, low hemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin desaturation predict neurological complications. Other risk factors ...