People with sickle-cell anaemia have a type of haemoglobin (called haemoglobin S (HbS) or sickle haemoglobin) which differs from usual haemoglobin (haemoglobin A or HbA). Haemoglobin is the substance ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders ... The vector can deliver more than one copy of the instructions to each cell—usually between one and four copies—so the cell can ...

A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious ...

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 ...

Pfizer is pulling its sickle cell disease (SCD ... In the U.S., the hemoglobin S (HbS) polymerization inhibitor was granted ...