Scientists have been looking for ways to increase fetal hemoglobin in more people with sickle cell disease, says Ambroise Wonkam, M.D., Ph.D., the Henry J. Knott Director of the McKusick-Nathans ...

Finally, the chances that their child will have two copies of the gene, and therefore sickle cell anemia, is also 25 percent. This situation is a stark example of genetic compromise, or an ...

A single base change can create a devastating genetic disorder or a beneficial ... influence the future of a species? Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid ...

Five seemingly unconnected Black and ethnic minority Londoners discover they have superpowers in the hit Netflix series "Supacell". The link between them? They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia ...

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic blood disorder that affects the protein which effects the shape and function of red blood cells. The disorder largely ...

“It’s been a long, long time coming.” Sickle cell is caused by a genetic mutation that leads red blood cells, which contain hemoglobin and ferry oxygen around the body, to be ...

FLT1 is among 14 new genetic markers of fetal hemoglobin the scientists identified from GWAS data gathered and used with permission from 3,751 people with sickle cell disease. Fetal hemoglobin ...