Sentences with phrase «including sickle cell anemia»

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.

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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.

Some other abnormalities that can be detected from these special tests include Down Syndrome, Turners» Syndrome, Tay - Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, Edwards Syndrome.

These diseases include leukemia or lymphoma, aplastic anemia, severe sickle cell anemia, and severe combined immune deficiency.

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With a miniscule blood sample, the HemeChip, a micro-electrophoretic device, examines and identifies hemoglobins, including hemoglobinopathies sickle cell anemia (HbSS), sickle trait (HbAS) and SC disease (HbSC).

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

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.

Today genetic tests can screen for many conditions, including Down syndrome, Tay - Sachs disease, sickle - cell anemia, and cystic fibrosis.

In the 1970s, many blacks were denied jobs and insurance coverage because they carried a gene for sickle - cell anemia, including those who lacked the two copies of a mutation necessary to get sick.

These mice have their hemoglobin genes removed and replaced with the mutated human version, saddling them with many of the same problems as human sufferers, including immature, short - lived, and sickle - shaped red blood cells; anemia; reduced blood flow; and an enlarged spleen.

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).

It also began offering information to customers about their «carrier status» — the ability to pass conditions on to children — of 36 diseases and medical conditions, including sickle - cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.

Symptoms of sickle cell disease include swelling of the hands and feet, pain due to clogging of blood vessels, anemia and stroke.

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...

Examples include Huntington's disease, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis and hemophilia.

Example reports include: Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Anemia, Hereditary Hearing Loss

Projects include a game that helps those with anxiety work on overcoming their fears, one that teaches sickle cell anemia patients ways to stay healthy and another that addresses bullying.

But I have a couple of good Chem books now, including Linus Pauling; whom I once had the privilege of listening to; in a lecture on the molecular causes of Sickle cell anemia; which is a problem of molecular shape (Haemoglobin).

Today academic institutions and teaching hospitals across the country receive federal or private grants to support groundbreaking research using human fetal tissue on a wide range of conditions including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injuries, hemophilia, leukemia, sickle cell anemia, cortical blindness, fetal aneuploidy, ALS, and others.