Anemia rates among children and teenagers in India may be 20 per cent lower than currently reported as diagnosis is based on ethnically inappropriate blood count thresholds, a study argues. The study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Hydroxyurea conferred benefit to children and adults with hemoglobin SC disease, according to study ...

The ability to non-invasively image blood flow and blood vessels is key to a number of clinically valuable biophotonics techniques. A 2022 survey by SPIE noted that the impact of imaging hemoglobin ...

Sickle cell disease is inherited at birth when you receive related genes from both parents. One gene usually causes sickle cell trait (SCT), which often has no health problems. The main sickle cell ...

AND017 is an investigational oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor. The Food and Drug Administration has granted Orphan Drug designation to KIND Pharmaceutical’s AND017 for the ...

Two papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine highlight the potential of gene editing for treatment of sickle ...

For the first time in Germany, a long-term, sustainable access agreement to a gene therapy has been established for people living with sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia,” ...

In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS, excessive H2O2 from reactive astrocytes triggers a vicious cycle of oxidative stress, protein aggregation, and neuronal loss.

Did you know the same protein that gives blood its red color and carries oxygen throughout the body is also present inside brain cells? Hemoglobin, long celebrated for ferrying oxygen in red blood ...