It could soon be possible for prospective couples to know whether their children will develop sickle cell disorders or not. Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o has said he is working on modalities of procuring ...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — A new and state-of-the-art sickle cell-diagnostic technology, "Sickle-Scan test kit" was officially launched in Dar es Salaam last week - a big boost to the government's ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Sickle cell is an inherited disorder caused by abnormal hemoglobin. [Courtesy] It could soon be possible for ...

Research Triangle Park-based medical diagnostics company BioMedomics is open for business in Kenya while it waits for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its medical diagnostics in ...

Gene therapy has the potential to dramatically benefit patients with genetic blood disorders, but a small study on participants in a clinical trial for sickle cell disease suggests that a key process ...

PARIS, France (AFP) — Scientists have used gene therapy to relieve the symptoms of a teenager suffering from sickle cell disease (SCD) in a world-first breakthrough, they reported on Thursday. SCD is ...

Lack of sickle cell equipment for early detection of sickle cell disease (SCD) in children is citied to be one of the contributing factor that leads to high number of deaths of sickle cell children in ...