When you breathe, oxygen moves into your lungs and binds to hemoglobin, a protein in your red blood cells. In your ...

SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital partners with Eye See Me African Bookstore to provide books promoting ...

When someone inherits two mutant copies of the hemoglobin gene, the abnormal form of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen and ... Those who carry the sickle cell ...

Red blood cell transfusions (RBCTs) are life-saving treatments for critically ill patients suffering from anemia, a condition ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another ... The rigid, misshapen blood cells do not carry oxygen well, and they also tend to clog capillaries, causing an affected person's ...

With the addition of Casgevy, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles now offers two gene therapies for sickle cell, the first being Lyfgenia.