How to Use sickle cell in a Sentence

sickle cell

noun

• Or whether Miles Davis would have been Miles Davis with sickle cell.
  — Curt Schleier Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• Her son turned to street drugs to ease his sickle cell symptoms and died at age 20.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Brown, who has the sickle cell trait and has missed eight games over the past three seasons, was the player with the health red flags.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• About one in 365 Black children are born with sickle cell.
  — Rachel Ryan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2021
• It's been there so long that the human genome has evolved to cope with the parasites, in the form of sickle cell disease.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
• People in any location can have a sickle cell crisis, at any time of the day or day of the week.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 7 July 2021
• The study aims to recruit up to 45 adults with severe sickle cell disease.
  — Michael Nedelman and Minali Nigam, CNN, 30 July 2019
• Decades ago, 60% of newborns with sickle cell disease died before the age of 20.
  — Kim Smith-Whitley, STAT, 31 Oct. 2021
• My Friend Jen and one of the UK’s leading sickle cell ambassadors.
  — Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 6 Sep. 2022
• There are many issues with sickle cell disease, and access to care is a big one.
  — al, 5 Jan. 2020
• But sickle cell doesn’t scare me nor deter me from living my life.
  — Brianna Arps, Essence, 23 Apr. 2021
• Almost one-half of sickle cell patients die in their 40s.
  — courant.com, 11 May 2018
• To have sickle cell disease, a person must be born with two sickle cell genes.
  — Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 20 Sep. 2024
• Trump told Kadu, who was born with sickle cell disease and had a bone marrow transplant.
  — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 14 Feb. 2020
• In fact, to date, this has helped over 50 persons living with sickle cell disease!
  — Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
• Others are in the works for sickle cell anemia and Type 2 diabetes.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• According to the post, the slide was a gift from the Make-A-Wish foundation for 7-year-old Jacob, who has sickle cell disease.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 16 July 2021
• In none of the deaths examined by the Times did the person have actual sickle cell disease.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
• Burke thanks Noah for his service and promises the world’s best medicine for his younger brother, who has sickle cell anemia.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 June 2023
• That’s not easy with a disease as destructive as sickle cell.
  — Sandy Banks Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
• Over time, sickle cell damages organs and leads to early death.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• About one in 13 Black or African-American babies are born with sickle cell trait.
  — oregonlive, 9 May 2022
• The patients will still have sickle cell disease on the other side of the intervention.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
• The first two gene therapies for sickle cell disease could win approval as soon as late this year.
  — Stephanie Nolen Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• In the 1970s, few children with sickle cell disease survived to adulthood.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• Miller’s father, Willie Miller, said none of his children had sickle cell anemia.
  — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
• It’s been almost a year since the FDA approved one of the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
• So far treating sickle cell via base pair editing has only been shown to work in mice, not humans.
  — Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• The agency has cleared Oxbryta to treat the blood disorder sickle cell disease.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019
• Throughout their lives, sickle cell patients may experience excruciating bouts of pain, called a sickle cell crisis.
  — Desiree Hadley, Essence, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024