News tagged with sickle cell anemia

Two studies provide insight into stroke risk and prevention in young sickle cell anemia patients

Monthly blood transfusions combined with daily medication to remove the resulting excess iron remains the best approach for reducing the risk of recurrent strokes in young patients with sickle cell anemia, according to a ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers Identify New Steps in Spread of Malaria Parasite Through Bloodstream

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have observed two previously unknown steps in the spread of the malaria parasite through the bloodstream. And in laboratory cultures, the researchers interfered ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Simulated gene therapy

In a recent issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory describe the fi ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0