This fortnight, SO MUCH happened in sickle cell research and news. New research, new drug trials, new medical center and a new report from the 1918s. Catch the latest here….
November 30, 2010: This Fortnight in SC News and Research Read More »
A short synopsis of breakthroughs in sickle cell research.
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This has been a week of grants and awards…read on to find out more about the sickle cell grants made this week.
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A brief synopsis of articles related to sickle cell research for the week of October 23, 2010
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Hello everyone, Sickle Cell Warriors in Tennessee ~ great news! A Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease has been established by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College. This means that we now have 11 centers for sickle cell disease. Hopefully this means that more qualitative research can be done on people
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By Henry Mukasa US President Barack Obama met a nine-year-old Ugandan girl who made a wish to meet the powerful leader when she heals from sickle-cell anemia. Carol Mulumba, now free from sickle cell, underwent a bone-marrow transplant at Methodist Children’s Hospital in the US in 2008. The bone marrow, donated by her brother, Mark,
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the seminal case report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (November 1910) by James B. Herrick titled “Peculiar Elongated and Sickle-Shaped Red Blood Corpuscles in a Case of Severe Anemia.” 90% of people with sickle cell are born outside of the United States (mostly in Africa and
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There were limited breakthroughs in sickle cell research this week. A group that studies lipids released a paper that identified certain levels of high-density lipo-proteins in children with sickle cell. This can be used in the future as bio-markers to target medical research. It’s very techy, but for those inclined, read more on it HERE.
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Once again, it’s a slow research week. The only thing to report from last week is the following: AesRx is developing a pill form of Aes-103, a small molecule pill that could reduce the number of red blood cells that can sickle. The company plans to begin human clinical trials in 2011. I couldn’t find
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This week in SC research, not that much went on. HemoBioTech announced a new patent called HemoTech, which is a hemoglobin substitute. This is made from bovine hemoglobin (cows), and works just like human hemoglobin in delivering oxygen to the cells. It has been tested for several months in Seattle on sickle cell patients with
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