Sentences with phrase «by sickle cell anemia»

In yet another study of the relationship between zinc and hormones, it was found that adding zinc to the diet of men affected by sickle cell anemia could increase testosterone levels.

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The company's genome kit, which was named «Invention of the Year» by Time magazine in 2008, tests for 36 recessive disorders, including sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.

Although most states require only a handful of tests, a panel of experts convened by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the March of Dimes recommends newborns be screened for 30 genetic disorders, including hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia.

Sickle cell anemia is caused by a genetic mutation that leads to «sickling» of the red blood cells.

Other plans include using CRISPR to reverse blood disorders, such as sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, caused by mutations in the hemoglobin gene.

On the other end of the spectrum are Mendelian diseases such as cystic fibrosis and sickle - cell anemia, which are caused by abnormalities to a single gene.

You made a name for yourself by curing mice of sickle - cell anemia.

Given the positive findings of the study, DeBaun and other authors of the study recommend that children with sickle cell anemia have a surveillance MRI, preferably without sedation, by the beginning of elementary school.

Over the next few years, similar maternal blood tests could detect hundreds of diseases caused by chromosome abnormalities or mutations, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Tay - Sachs disease, and genetic deafness and blindness.

The new model, which is a scaled - down version of an earlier numerical model by Shaqfeh and colleagues that provided the first large - scale, quantitative explanation of the formation of the layer, can predict how blood cells with varying shapes, sizes, and properties — including the crescent - shaped cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell anemia — will influence blood flow.

Other genetic diseases include Tay - Sachs disease (damage to the gene for the enzyme hexosaminidase A leads to an accumulation of a chemical in the brain that destroys it), sickle cell anemia (improper coding of the gene that produces hemoglobin), hemophilia (lack of a gene for a blood - clotting factor) and muscular dystrophy (caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome).

But in the living world, crystals, like the ones formed by cocoa butter in chocolate or ill - formed ones that cause sickle cell anemia, are made from molecules that are long and floppy and contain a lengthy well - defined sequence of many atoms.

What's more, inherited diseases can arise from a problem with one gene (a simple example is sickle - cell anemia, a condition caused by defects in a single gene that makes the hemoglobin protein), or from interactions among a range of genetic variations as well as, frequently, environmental stresses.

There was no proof it would help (trials are under way at Stanford, partly sponsored by the SMA Foundation), but it had been safely used before on kids with sickle - cell anemia.

Key indications covered in this database include Neutropenia, Sickle - cell Disorders, Thalassemia, Iron deficiency anemia, Haemophilia A, and Haemophilia B. By Clinical Trial Stages: The...

The process, known as prenatal screening, is already used to determine whether an embryo exhibits signs of conditions like Down syndrome and diseases like sickle cell anemia, but it could also be used to identify any other genetic abnormalities — particularly genetic mutations — exhibited by an embryo.

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disorder characterized by anemia, episodes of pain, and frequent infections.

Carrier screening for hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell anemia is recommended by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) via complete blood count and hemoglobin electrophoresis for people of African, Southeast Asian, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and West Indian descent considering having children.

Anemia can be triggered by blood loss, a folic acid or vitamin B12 deficiency, sickle cell disease, and a genetic disorder called thalassemia, among other causes.

So if you have a problem with a slapsticky pratfall involving scads of semen, followed by a wildly inappropriate joke about sickle cell anemia, followed by a crass Kardashian reference (and it's a loooong way to go for that punchline), then you should probably look elsewhere.

When blood cell production is interrupted by disease, cancers (such as leukemia) or genetic abnormalities (such as sickle cell anemia), a person...

Been diagnosed with, been treated for or advised by a licensed member of the medical profession to receive treatment for Alzheimer's, dementia, memory loss, organic brain disease, mental incapacity, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), Down's Syndrome, Huntington's disease, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy or been diagnosed by a medical professional as having a terminal medical condition that is expected to result in death within the next 18 months?