Understanding Sickle Cell Anemia and the Need for Early DiagnosisSickle cell anemia is a genetic blood disorder caused by a ...

The end product was Heme-Chip, a pocket-sized sickle cell diagnostic tool ... "As far as I know, we are the only group in the world working to make hemoglobin electrophoresis a point-of-care service," ...

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.

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) behaves like normal hemoglobin when fully oxygenated, but at low oxygen tension the hydrophobic valine residues cause the HbS to polymerize, resulting in gel formation ...

New gene therapies could transform sickle cell treatment forever. A future without pain crises or hospitalizations may finally be within reach.