The models showed that the rigid, crescent - shaped red blood cells that are the hallmark of sickle cell disease don't cause these blockages on their own.
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In addition to explanations for above average effect sizes, is has to be explained why young people with arthritis, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, HIV infection, and
sickle cell disease did not show higher levels of depressive symptoms than their healthy peers.
Not exact matches
The technology's possibilities are staggering — in theory, allowing medical scientists to
do everything from cure genetic disorders like
sickle cell disease to identify gene targets for combating HIV.
You can also have
sickle cell trait, which means you carry the gene for
sickle cell but don't have the
disease.
«If we could use gene editing to remove the sequences in an embryo that cause
sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis, I would say not only that we may
do so, but in the case of such severe
diseases, we have a moral obligation to
do so.»
«There is still a lot of work to be
done before this approach might be used in the clinic, but we're hopeful that it will pave the way for new kinds of treatment for patients with
sickle cell disease.»
It could theoretically screen for
diseases like malaria and
sickle -
cell anemia and could also
do a straightforward blood count.
«When pain was reported as low,
sickle cell disease patients reported higher opioid use if they catastrophized, or focused their thinking on their pain, than if they didn't,» says Finan.
The scientists
did this by manipulating a small molecule known as sphingosine -1-phosphate (S1P), which they report is found in elevated levels in people with
sickle cell disease.
If I
do not donate, patients with serious blood
diseases, like
sickle cell anemia, will die.»
CRISPR / Cas9 could be used to develop therapies for humans for genetic blood
diseases such as
sickle cell or thalassemia, and this paper
does not change that potential.
Those individuals don't develop
sickle cell disease.
Because anemia has to
do with the blood, it is sometimes a symptom of another underlying health issue or as a symptom of a blood
disease such as
sickle cell anemia.