sickle cell anemia

sickle cell animia and beta trait the same or not?

my wife is using Primolut N for disturbed menstruation. i was going through interenet and found out that in patients with sickle cell animia there are higher chances of blood clots in major organs...

what do you know about sickle cell anemia??

it is adisease with.......

Sickle cell anemia

Sickle cell anemia, most common in people of African descent, is a hereditary disease that results in the production of abnormal hemoglobin. The red blood cells become sickle shaped, they cannot...

Reprogrammed Skin Cells Treat Symptoms of Parkinson's in Rats

MIT is reporting on positive results of a study that used the recently conceived stem cells derived from skin cells (so called induced pluripotent stem cells) to successfully integrate in the brain...

Sickle cell - latest advances

A sickle cell compared with with a normal red blood cell Further to my blog on retrieving stem cells from skin cells, scientists in Alabama and Massachusetts have reported a key next step when they...

Progress Overcomes Congress (and the President)

Scientists Cure Mice With Sickle Cell Scientists have the first evidence that those “reprogrammed stem cells” that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease:...

Scientists Cure Sickle Cell Anemia in Mouse Model

Researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass. and Kyoto University in Japan used an innovative new method to reprogram adult cells to an...

Wake Up and Smell the...Cells?

I am getting progressively more fed up with the constant arguments of the morality of embryonic stem cell research. I understand the potential good that embryonic stem cells might be able to produce...

The Ethical Argument for Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering, the intentional alteration of the DNA of an organism, holds great potential for the future, promising everything from the abolishment of world hunger to cures for currently...

Store Stem Cells from Excess IVF Embryos

StemLifeLine, a California firm, plans to offer the ability to collect and store stem cells from excess embryos that occur during IVF procedures. The MIT Technology Review has the story: The new...

New Biotech Company Wants to Fix Your DNA

Researchers at the University of Delaware Biotechnology Institute have formed the company Orphagenix with the explicit goal of advancing their patented technology to repair genes and cure rare...

Robots with Blood on Their Hands

A mysterious robot is helping clinicians at the University of Alberta blood bank. By checking for HIV and Hep C, the robot helps the bank process more blood for hemophiliacs: The robot does the...

This view of life

Over my "vacation" (which unfortunately ended up being more work than play), I was at a dinner with two of my best friends from the past 15-odd years. For whatever reason, the topic turned to...