Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely ... Those infected cells flow through the spleen, which culls them out because ...

Sickle Cell disease is an autosomal recessive disorder that causes anemia, joint pain, a swollen spleen, and frequent, severe infections. It illustrates balanced polymorphism because carriers are ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution ... as well as congestion and fibrosis of the spleen at an early age.

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that ... including an increased risk of infections. The spleen, which plays a crucial role in filtering bacteria and supporting immune function ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

Although splenic pathology is relatively rare ... patent foramen ovale, polycythemia, sickle cell disease, and wandering spleen. The latter is a rare condition where there is torsion of the ...