How to Use fetal hemoglobin in a Sentence

fetal hemoglobin

noun

• His fetal hemoglobin, which lingers for months, may have confused the results.
  — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• One of the ideas that has been considered for treating these anemias is to reactivate the fetal hemoglobin gene.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
• Blood cells filled with fetal hemoglobin do not sickle.
  — Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• For the sickle-cell patient, the fetal hemoglobin accounted for half her total a year after the procedure.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
• People born with sickle cell and a genetic fluke that allows them to keep making fetal hemoglobin do not suffer from the disease, research shows.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
• Normally fetal hemoglobin, which provides the developing fetus with oxygen via the blood while in utero, is shut off about six months after birth, and genes for adult hemoglobin are turned on.
  — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
• The sickle cell treatment involves re-activating a fetal gene that produces what is known as fetal hemoglobin.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
• The results of the sickle cell trial showed the treatment proved effective in increasing the level of fetal hemoglobin while reducing the level of the sickle hemoglobin.
  — Paul Adepoju, Quartz Africa, 8 Dec. 2020
• In both cases, the therapy does not shut off a target gene but instead delivers a gene that boosts production of healthy fetal hemoglobin—a gene normally turned off shortly after birth.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• For reasons that are still not fully understood, the medication ramps up production of fetal hemoglobin—the alpha-gamma version of the protein that’s present right after birth.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
• Those kids had a second mutation that meant their bodies kept making fetal hemoglobin, a protein that usually disappears by age 1.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• The mutation—named after the New Jersey hometown of the first patient identified with the problem in 2011—affects only fetal hemoglobin; babies start making healthy adult hemoglobin within a few months.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2019
• Usually, by about age six months, this leads to complete replacement of fetal hemoglobin with adult hemoglobin, but often in beta thalassemia that replacement is delayed until 3 to 5 years of age.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016
• One copy, called fetal hemoglobin, is typically active only in fetuses, shutting down within a few months after birth.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• Among the treatments currently used is a medication called hydroxyurea, which can stimulate the production of fetal hemoglobin.
  — Michael Nedelman and Minali Nigam, CNN, 30 July 2019
• Related: Crispr Therapeutics becomes the latest biotech to open in the Seaport Unlike adult hemoglobin, fetal hemoglobin resists forming a crescent shape in sickle cell patients, and scientists have long wanted to find a way to restart it.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• While searching for other possible treatments, researchers noticed that sickle cell patients who did well naturally had high levels of fetal hemoglobin — the hemoglobin inside babies when they are born.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
• There are cases in which fetal hemoglobin production continues into adulthood.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024