THE danger of high-altitude flying to patients with sicklemia, until lately, has been more theoretical than.real. As recently as 1951 Margolies 1 said that "the sickle cell trait is not a ...
Researchers have designed a microfluidic device, or 'spleen-on-a-chip,' that can model how the spleen's filters become clogged by sickled red blood cells, leading to a life-threatening condition known ...
September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...
Healthy human red blood cells (RBCs) gradually degrade over their lifespan of ~120 days. However, sickle cells - RBCs from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients - degrade much faster within their ...
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